Documents / FOIA release
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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Toeef Selected Soviet Major Surface Combatants Figure |-23 Year operational Propulsion Armament Kiev 1976 Steam 32-50 ASW/helicopters and V/STOL fighters Aircraft carrier SS-N-12 antiship cruise missiles SA-N-3 SAMs SA-N-4 SAMs SUW-N-1 ASW rockets - _76-mm guns Gatling guns Probable torpedoes RBU-6000 ASW rockets Moskva 1968 Steam 16-24 ASW helicopters Helicopter ship SA-N-3 SAMs SUW-N-1 ASW rockets 57-mm guns - Torpedoes RBU-6000 ASW rockets Kara 1972 Gas turbine SA-N-3 SAMs Cruiser - SA-N-4 SAMs SS-N-14 ASW missiles u/i SAMs on 1 ship 76-mm guns Gatling guns Torpedoes RBU-1000 and RBU-6000 ASW rockets Kresta II 1970 Steam SA-N-3 SAMs Cruiser SS-N-14 ASW missiles 57-mm guns Torpedoes RBU-1000 and RBU-6000 ASW rockets Krivak 1970 Gas turbine SA-N-4 SAMs Frigate SS-N-14 ASW missiles 76-mm, 100-mm guns Torpedoes RBU-6000 ASW rockets 579028 *o cm 11-38 o t
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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.