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OSR Contribution to NIE 11-14-68, Soviet and East European General Purpose Forces, CIA/DI/OSR, October 1968.

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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.

  • p. 40 …The completion of this mobilization, which was never fully tested, might have required a week or…
  • p. 65 …airborne intercept (AI) radar, however, and have never been observed with AAM's. This would restrict…
  • p. 93 …role, but the MI-6's have never been con- firmed in ASW activity, and it…
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Figure 5
Equipment Holdings of Western USSR Divisions
ITEMS 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500
CATEGORY II
CAFAH AN (Reduced Strength)
CARPATHIAN
8th Tank Army -+ ...
13th Army t." C
38th Arm :iva nraJ r k'/...J
BELORUSSIAN
28th Army 9
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5th Guards -T A
7th Tank Army
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11th Guards Army r .. ,.
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KIEV
U/I Tank Army
U/I Tank Army
-* MMME IM-E
CAEORYII
ITEMS 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500
I Tonk Division iii Motorized Rifle Division 0 Airborne Division EZ Rangeof Uncertainty
*Not subordinate to Armies
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