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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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To-p beeroll Table 1B-1 Disposition of Warsaw Pact Grotmd Forces January 1979 CategoryI Categov It Catetry III Total TI) Mil) Ablln Ide TD MDl) Abn de TD MRD Ab, Ide Div Oide DivisionsOpposite NATO Central Regin Cast CEuroocan EastG ........... 2 4 - - - - - - - - - 6 - P'olaud ........ ...... .... .. 5 3 1 - - 3 - - 2 - - 15. - Czecoslovai........ 3 4 - 1 2 - - - 10 - TS F.otalF- Euroean ........ .... 2..... 10 11 1- 4 - - 2 2 - - 31. - S-.iet CSFC(CastCermany). . 10 10 20 - N F P l n) .. .. ...... .. .... .......... 2 - - . - - - - - 2 - CF(oCzechosslovakhi .. .. .. 2 .2 - - - -. - -- - -- - - 5 - Ialic MlD ...............-..... . ... - - I - 2 I - - I 4 I - 10 - iklorssian l ...... ....- - - - I - Carpatian MD .......... .... - - - - I 2 - .- 2 0 - - 1 - To l Soviet ................ ....................... 14 14 2 - 3 3 - - 11 II I - 59 - Total Oprosile CentralRegion ............. ... 24 25 3 - A 7 - - 13 13 1 - 90' - Divisions on NATO' Fanks tEast Euroorean 1ungar -_...................... ......... I 2 - - - I - - -- 2 - - 6 - Iulgaria . ..... . . ... - 6 - 3 I - - - 6 7 Romi ..... .. .- 5 - 2 - 3 - - - - ~ -- 10 2 Tolal ad Euoean..... .................... 3 10 - 8 - 7 -- - 2 - - 22 9. Soviet SCF(0ungay). ... . . 2 2 - - - -- - - -- - - - - 4 - OdessaMD .. . . ...... . - - I - -- I - 6 - - 8 - Kiev MD .................................. .............. . - - - - 1 - - - 6 4 - - 11 - North Caucasus MD ...... . .. - - - - I - - - -- 5 - - 6 - Transeaucas MD .. .... - 1 - - 2 - - - 9 - - 12 - Leningrad l ... ....... - I 1 - - I - -- - 6 - - 9 - TotalSoet. .... ....... 2 3 3 - 2 4 - - 6 30 - - 50 - Iotalon NATOc lanks . ... ............... S 1 3 8 2 1i - I 6 32 - - 72 9 Other Soviet tivisions I1t the Eastern USSR and Afongolioa SovietForcesinMongolia....... ..... - - 1 -- - -- - - - -- 3 - COntralAsiaMl) .. . . .......--.--. 2 - - -- 3 - -- 7 - Sibi ajnrMD ............................ ................... ... - - - - - . - 4 - - 5 - Tnr baykal MD ................... ..................... 1 3 - - - 2 - - 1 3 - - 10 - Far East MD....................... --- 5 - - 1s 6 - - - 10, - - 22' - Total in Eastern USSR and Mongolia ... ..... 3 10 - - 2 iI - - 1 20 - - 47 - i tifrewhere Moscow M D . .... .............. .... .... ......... - - I - 1 I - - -- :2 - - 7 - Ural Nil ............. ......... ..... - 1 2 - - 3 - Volga MD . . ......... ........-.---.-.-.--.-.-.-- --- 3 - - 3 - TurkestanNil) . . . . . - - 1 - - I - - - - - 5 - Totalse e .......... ....... - - 2 -- 1 2 - - 2 11 - - I8 - Toal Other SovietlDivisions....................... 3 10 2 - 3 13 - - 3 3I -. - 65 - Totai Warsaw Pact ............... .............. 32 48 8 8 8 31 - 1 22 76 1 - 227 9 Sioit ....... .. ...... ....... ...... 19 27 3 - 20 - -. 22 7l -.- 1N - F- sotEuro a . ..... .. ... .... ... 13 21 1 0 - i -- I 2 5 - - 53' 9 Slicudlesa CategoryI Polishsea landing divosi of soce 4,400men which is nol Iiced in categoy ccocums 'This division dcos not colorn to the standardTO&E of a tank divisinn and may be eprcimcenol. v Five tank brigares andone irainingbrigade, the latter designated for wacime expsiocn to a mtorizld rifle division. o Peacetime trainig brigade deigoated for waitime eoansion to mltorizel rifle division, e M ucntain lr e brigades, f Incde ncediviion which is in the oreof bei unscadel fram a obiht.atio (seennhenecation) division a active o e includesthree motorizd rifle divisionsof the Fa, Est Mihtaiv Districtwhih. beause of thciic emote tocations in Sakhalinand Kamchatka.areno 1odered to be deoloyed ociosite China. 8-3 Ito aeBe3
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