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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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dispersal. This provides a high degree of survivability. - Pact forces have a high degree of communica- tions security, both in operating practices and in security devices. - The Pact is demonstrating an increasing degree of interoperability in communications equip- ment. - Pact mobile signal units have backup communi- cations equipment to replace that damaged or destroyed. 30.. Problems noted inclu-de in- stances of poor-quality staff and communications per- sonnel; low Russian-language proficiency on the part of some Pact staffs; shortcomings in quantity, capacity, interoperability, maintainability, and security of com- munications equipment; and failure to fulfill doctrinal requirements for camouflage and distance between communications centers and command posts. ||I-9 Top et
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 201 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.