While doing archive research, I came across translations of lectures from Soviet General Staff Academy, or Voroshilov Academy as it was also known in the Soviet days. I had tucked away the documents in a notebook, and tweeted about some of them. https://twitter.com/vpkivimaki/status/820629224717488128 After getting my hands on the "CIA Analysis of Warsaw Pact Forces" … Continue reading Soviet General Staff Academy Lectures 1968-1985
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Index of CIA’s Soviet military journal translations (Christmas 2018 Update)
In July of 2017, I released the first index to translations from secret Soviet military journals that the CIA had acquired and translated during the Cold War. During that process, I noticed that in the summer of 2017, the CIA had dome some changes to the way PDF documents were linked in the online Electronic … Continue reading Index of CIA’s Soviet military journal translations (Christmas 2018 Update)
Origins of American Covert Action
The very brief history of covert action in colonial times by William Colby.
FBIS Product: Trends in Communist Media
Trends in Communist Propaganda/Media: weekly Foreign Broadcast Information Service reports from 1970-1975.
Dirty tricks: Harassments & Provocations studies 1967-1985
A look at harassments and provocations, or the dirty tricks employed by foreign intelligence services.
Project RAND reports, 1951-1956
A look at declassified Project RAND reports from 1951-1956, including balloon reconnaissance of USSR.
History of signals intelligence at the CIA
A quick look at where to find information on CIA's Cold War era SIGINT activites.