Documents / FOIA release
This is an October 1968 contribution by the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Strategic Research to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-68 on Soviet and East European general purpose forces. It covers Warsaw Pact war plans for Central Europe, the effects of the Czechoslovak crisis, and the doubling of Soviet forces on the Chinese border since 1965. It also assesses ground, tactical air, naval and coastal defense forces. The text does not mention UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Theater force advocates have become increasingly vocal over the past year and have argued for a strategy of flexible response, including implicitly, a nonnuclear alternative for a war in Europe. In addition, proponents of flexible response now hold important command and staff positions in the military hierarchy. For example, Col. Gen. M. Povaliy, planning chief of the Soviet General Staff, in a March 1968 Red Star article gave an unprecedented endorsement to the rationale underlying the US strategy of flexible re- sponse. Under the concept of flexible response, wrote Povaliy, a state need not.run the risk of nuclear war in every situation involving its allies and can pursue its own military-political objectives with the least threat to its security. -4 - TOP*oEGRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 115 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.