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East German Intelligence Assessment of NATO's Intelligence on Warsaw Pact

16 Dec 1985
Description: This assessment, issued by the East German Staatssicherheit (Stasi) intelligence agency, provides information on how NATO evaluates the military capabilities of the Warsaw Pact. The authors judge that the West has concluded that the Warsaw Pact military strength and war preparations are constantly on the rise. The document addresses NATO's knowledge on several key aspects of WP military and defense strategy, such as the development of its conventional forces and the steps taken in the modernization of military equipment.

Collection: A Cardboard Castle?

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Document Type: Report
Origin (Agency): East German Ministry of State Security
Language of Original Document: German
Number of Pages: 86
Cold War Period: 1980s
Document Source: Federal Commissioner for the Records of the National Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic (BStU), Berlin
Call Number: Zentralarchiv, HVA, 39, pp. 62-147
Document Companion: Document No. 109

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