CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947-1991. A Documentary Collection

摘要

The global contest between the United States and the Soviet Union dominatedinternational relations for some 46 years (1945-1991). The Cold War confrontation shaped the foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union, deeply affecting their societies and their foreign policies. This report describes how the Central Intelligency Agency (CIA), along with other agencies in the US Intelligence Community, helped American policymakers understand events in the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. CIA's major analytic component, the Directorate of Intelligency (DI), focused much of its attention on Soviet developments. It tried not only to discern Moscow's intentions, but also to guage the state of the Soviet economy, the USSR's technological base, the readiness and plans of Soviet military forces, and the internal workings of the Kremlin.