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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.
“Headquarters”14 pages
D. Theater Nuclear Forces 1.I-44 Tactical Nuclear Forces 11-44 Soviet Peripheral Strike Forces I1-49 E. Forces for Chemical Warfare 11-59 Production .. ....... 11-59 Stockpile ... 11-59 C3R Training and Equipment 11-60 F. Forces for Electronic Warfare 11-61 Forces .... 1I-61 Capabilities 11-62 G. Warsaw Pact Logistics 11-63 Ground Forces II-63 Air Forces .. II-68 Naval Forces II-69 CHAPTER Ill, WARSAW PACT COMMAND AND CONTROL........ III-1 A. The Wartime Command Structure I......... II-1 Western Theater of War: The Warsaw Pact High Command 111-3 Fronts 11.....I -3 Armies and Divisions 111-4 Fleets ............................ 111-7 B. Measures for Control of Combined Operations I11-7 War Plans IIJ-7 Standardization . .7................... 1-7 Representatives of Command III-7 Operations Groups II.................................1.I-7 Strategic Communications Support of Theater Forces I11-7 C. Control Procedures for Nuclear Weapons I8...................I- D. Effectiveness of Pact Command and Control III-8 E . V u ln erab ility ......................................... III-8 CHAPTER IV. WARSAW PACT STRATEGY FOR INITIAL CONVENTIONAL OPERATIONS AGAINST NATO IV-1 A. The Initial Campaign in the Western Theater of Miltary Operations ................................... IV-2 The Ground Offensive IV-2 The Air Offensive in Central Europe ... .................. IV-1I Naval Operations in the Baltic ........................... IV-20 B. The Initial Campaign in the Southwestern 'Theater of Military Operations...................................... IV-24 Initial Ground Operations . IV-25 Initial Naval Operations in the Black Sea IV-27 Initial Air and Naval Operations in the Mediterranean IV-28 vi Top ct
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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.