The CIA and Strategic Warning: The 1968 Soviet-Led Invasion of Czechoslovakia
CIA (historical study) CIA-CSI report
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must have come very late in the game
CIA-STRATEGIC-WARNING-1968, CIA (historical study), 2009-09-01 · Quoting a DI Intelligence Memorandum of 21 August 1968 on when the Soviet decision was taken
The possibility will exist for some time that the Soviets will choose to intervene.
CIA-STRATEGIC-WARNING-1968, CIA (historical study), 2009-09-01 · Quoting the same ONE memorandum of 17 July 1968
We know of no way of foretelling the precise event in Czechoslovakia which might trigger…extreme Soviet reaction
CIA-STRATEGIC-WARNING-1968, CIA (historical study), 2009-09-01 · Quoting an ONE Memorandum for the Director of 17 July 1968. OCR-rendered; not byte-verified.
Document metadata
| Reference | CIA-STRATEGIC-WARNING-1968 |
|---|---|
| Originating body | CIA (historical study) |
| Date | 2009-09-01 |
| Document type | report |
| Archive | CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence — Studies in Intelligence (US) |
| Provenance | Byline and publication venue could NOT be confirmed from the PDF itself and it is not listed in the Studies in Intelligence Vol. 54 No. 2 contents. Cited as a CIA historical study accompanying the reading-room collection. |
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The Soviet decision to invade was taken late, leaving little to detect in advance.
A CIA Directorate of Intelligence memorandum of 21 August.
Information provenance
- summarizes (inferred) → CIA-RDP80B01495R001300130019-7 — A later CIA historical study covering the same warning question as the 1968 post-mortem.