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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 Other recently completed National Intelligence Estimates and Interagency Intelligence Memorandums contain cornmprehensive assess- ments of some issues that are given summary treatment in this document. - NIE 11-4-78, Soviet Goals and Expectations in the Global Power Arena, describes the broad strategic and political considerations which shape the Soviet defense posture. - NiE 4-1-78, Warsaw Pact Concepts and Capabilitiesfor Going to War in Europe: Implications for NATO Warning of War, assesses Pact attack options in Central Europe and the intelligence basis for our estimate of NATO's warning time there. - NIE 11-3/8-78, Soviet Capabilities for Strategic Nuclear Conflict Through the Late 1980s, and NIE 11-6-78, Soviet Strategic Forces for Peripheral Attack, contain detailed estimates of Soviet strategic forces available for use against NATO. - NIE 11-10-79, Soviet Military Capabilities To Project Power and Influence in Distant Areas. - NI IIM 78-10018J, Indications and Warning of Soviet Intentions To Use Chemical Weapons During a NATO- Warsaw Pact War. - N1 1IM 78-10029, Assessed Manpower of Warsaw Pact Forces in the NATO Guidelines Area. - NI IIM 78-10027J, A Survey of Warsaw Pact Concealment, Deception, and Intelligence Denial Activity. 2
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