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.
“The Advance”9 pages
freeing Soviet Baltic Fleet amphibious forces for. tasks elsewhere. The Soviets will probably with- draw from Swinoujscie in 1970, and Polish naval strength is likely to grow to fill this gap. Eastern European naval strength is concentrated in the Baltic and is very low in the Black Sea, where, the Soviet Navy carries the main responsibility for defense. The navies of Bulgaria and Rumania are structured for the patrol and mine- sweeping functions of their coastal defense mission. In the past year, the small Rumanian Navy has engaged in closer cooperation with its. allies than in any year since 1964, while the level of training and operations in the Bulgarian Navy declined last year. Only a few ships were added to the fleets in the past year. There were no. important deliveries of Soviet ships. Polish yards produced medium landing ships, small subchasers, torpedo boats, and fleet minesweepers. Production of the Krogulec-class fleet minesweepers probably ended in 196.7. Poland kept over half of the 13 Polnocny-class landing ships completed in 1967. This was the first year of production in which the. USSR did not receive most of the new Polnocnys., East Germany produced subchasers - 106 -
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 115 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.