Post Mortem on Czech Crisis — Memorandum for the Director of Central Intelligence
CIA / Intelligence Community Staff CIA-CREST report Secret
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The intention to invade was not known until after the fact.
CIA-RDP80B01495R001300130019-7, CIA / Intelligence Community Staff, 1968-11-22 · OCR-rendered; not byte-verified
…at no time was the intelligence community able to make a judgment that a Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was more likely than not.
CIA-RDP80B01495R001300130019-7, CIA / Intelligence Community Staff, 1968-11-22 · The verdict of the official post-mortem. OCR-rendered; not byte-verified.
In the final analysis intelligence coverage of this crisis was adequate up to the point of the decision to invade Czechoslovakia.
CIA-RDP80B01495R001300130019-7, CIA / Intelligence Community Staff, 1968-11-22 · OCR-rendered; not byte-verified against the page image
Document metadata
| Reference | CIA-RDP80B01495R001300130019-7 |
|---|---|
| Originating body | CIA / Intelligence Community Staff |
| Date | 1968-11-22 |
| Document type | report |
| Classification | Secret |
| Archive | CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST) (US) |
| Provenance | Released 2006; the exact release day renders inconsistently across CREST metadata. Quotations are OCR-rendered and have not been byte-verified against the page image. |
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The post-mortem separates collection from intentions analysis.