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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. 26 …East European field army headquarters do not exist as separate entities in peacetime but are formed…
  • p. 41 …The Front headquarters is formed by cadres from the Polish Ministry of National Defense, supplemented with…
  • p. 45 …but is subordinate to the Airborne Forces Headquarters at Moscow. There are fewer combat support units…
  • p. 59 …No separate headquarters for tactical air forces (TAF) exists on a national level. Instead, the forces…
  • p. 99 …easy since-Vladivostok headquarters and Soviet naval bases are within one day's steaming distance of…
Table 4
Est-t s°oS eiTdGe68 -Pp ir-s7ba0 iiTTFe
Mid-1968 -- Mid-1970
Mid-1:968 Mid-1969 Mid-1970
Cruise Missile 58 60-61 61
Nuclear 33 33 33
E-I 5 5 5
E-II 28 28 28
Diesel 25 27-28 28
J 1.3 15-16 16
W-Conversion 12 12 12
Attack 266-270 263-267 264-268
Nuclear 14-18 17-21 21-25
N 12-15 12-15 12-15
C 1 2 4
v 1-2 3-4 5 6
Diesel 252 246 243
B 1 2 4
F 45 45 45
Z 20 20 20
R 14 14 14
W a/ 157 150 145.
Q 15 15 15
Total 324-328 323-328 325-329
a. IncZudes five W-class units configured as radar
picket submarines.
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