Selected Estimates on the Soviet Union, 1950-1959
Washington, DC: Center for Study of Intelligence, CIA History Staff, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 28 cm. xxii, [2], 297, [7] pages. Oversized--format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Wraps. Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Contains estimates of the 1950s which portray the Soviet Union as aggressive but unwilling to take foolish risks. The question became to determine what risks the Soviet Union would be willing to take in any given circumstance. Scott A. Koch was a member of the CIA History Staff, joining it in 1992. Prior to that he had bee a military analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence. He earned a Doctorate in History from Duke University in 1990. This volume of declassified National Intelligence Estimates was published in conjunction with the CIA's Symposium on the Teaching of Intelligence held in October, 1993. These estimates have been selected from a much larger collection of estimates on the Soviet Union that the CIA was declassifying for transfer to the National Archives, where they will be open to the public. The documents in the present volume offer a remarkable insight into how the Board of National Estimates perceived and appraised the USSR on topics ranging from changes in Soviet leadership to the problem of nuclear disarmament. They are the intelligence advice that the President and the National Security Council received in the 1950s, and their publication should help reveal how far and in what ways this advice influenced US policy in those dark Cold War years. Condition: good.
Keywords: Espionage, CIA, Middle East, Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Communism, Suez Crisis, Stalin, Intelligence
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