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This is Volume II of National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-79, Warsaw Pact Forces Opposite NATO, issued by the Director of Central Intelligence and dated January 1979. The National Foreign Intelligence Board concurred with it. It was the first comprehensive estimate of Pact forces facing NATO since 1971. It covers Pact doctrine, the ground, air, naval, nuclear and chemical forces, command and control, and campaign plans for war in Europe. It judges that Central Europe would be the decisive arena, and it lists Pact weaknesses in pilot training and antisubmarine warfare. The document contains no UFO material.
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Top | . Table II-13 Selected Warsaw Pact CW Agents and Weapon Systems Artillery Free-Fall Munitions Bombs (size in (weight in Rocket Missle Agent millimeters) kilograms) Warheads Warheads (entry indicates availability of delivery system for agent specified) Nerve Thickened Soman ...................... - 100 FROG Scud Sarin ........................ . . 122, 152 100, 250 BM-21 - BM-24 Vesicant (Blister) M ustard ................................... 122, 152 - - - Thickened Mustard 122, .152 - -- Thickened Lewisite .................... 122, 152 - - - Mustard/Lewisite Mixture .......... - 100, 250, - - 500, 1,000 1,500 Thickened/Mustard/Lewisite Mixture ........... ............. - 250, 1,000 - Systemic tHydrogen Cyanide ...................... - 250, 500 BM-21 - BM-24 the immediate path of a Soviet advance probably They would be used against personnel in the open and would be attacked with nonpersistent CW agents to contaminate materiel and selected areas of terrain, delivered by tube and rocket artillery and aerial especially on the axes of defensive operations. Ground- bombs. Some Soviet chemical bombs are fitted with a burst of thickened blister agent munitions would be fuse designed to provide optimum area coverage. used to achieve very heavy contamination of smaller 191. Warsaw Pact military writings indicate that areas. Chemical mines are usually filled with blister fragmentation-chemical shells, which disseminate the agents and would be used alone or interspersed with liquid agent fill almost entirely as vapor and aerosol in antitank or antipersonnel mines. order to cause casualties quickly through 'inhalation, CBR Training and Equipment are to be used with unthickened GB, mustard, and probably GD. Thickened GD is also probably filled in 193. Soviet research in chemical, biological, and aerial airburst bombs and missile warheads to produce radiological warfare has been extensive. The Soviets casualties from the toxic "rain" effect. Warheads for possess large quantities of a wide range of equipment, the FROG and Scud filled with thickened GD and much of which is of recent design, for use in a toxic fused to burst at high altitude are planned to achieve a environment. Extensive training in its use is integral to casualty rate of up to 80 percent among unprotected military exercises for all Soviet and NSWP ground, personnel naval, and air forces. These same training procedures and protective equipment would enable the Soviets to operate on the offensive as well as on the defensive [ he casualties would1e caused primarily within the toxic areas of combat. Equipment and by skin penetration of the toxic, thickened GD "rain." training for chemical protection are combined with that for biological or radiological protection, and the 192. Rocket artillery would be used to blanket large special CBR troops are responsible for these three areas with the nonpersistent agents GB and hydrogen types of activity. At present there are about 60,000 cyanide, the latter where immediate occupation of the personnel and 8,000 decontamination and 4,000 recon- area after the attack was desired. The blister agents, naissance vehicles assigned to specialized Pact CBR mustard and mustard-lewisite mixtures, are contained defense units. If all current, active Pact ground, air,in aerial and ground munitions fused to airburst for and naval units were brought up to full strength, the maximum area contamination with the toxic liquid number of Pact CBR personnel would double. 11-60
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