Wartime

The Alsos Mission: World War II Program To Spy on Enemy Scientific Advances

Background The Alsos Mission was an organized effort by a team of British and United States military, scientific, and intelligence…

December 29, 2020

Iraqi Ballistic Missile Developments, An Intelligence Assessment, July 1990

Background According to the report: "Iraq has the most aggressive and advanced ballistic missile development program in the Arab world…

December 11, 2020

Communist Control Techniques, April 2, 1956

Background An Analysis of the Methods Used by Communist State Police in the Arrest, Interrogation, and Indoctrination of Persons Regarded…

November 30, 2020

Overview of Nuclear Material Protection, Control and Accounting in Russia, November 16, 1994

Background Excerpt from the document: WHILE MANY DIFFERENT SYSTEMS ARE IN PLACE IN RUSSIA TO INSURE THE SECURITY OF NUCLEAR…

November 17, 2020

Impact and Implications of Chemical Weapons Use in the Iran-Iraq War, April 1988

Background This Memorandum examines the degree to which chemical warfare (CW) in the Iran-Iraq conflict has been effective and discusses…

October 29, 2020

Role of CIA in Nuclear War, 1958

Background In 1958, the CIA completed the below report about its role in the event of a nuclear war. The…

October 21, 2020

Soviet Views on Military Operations in Space, July 1986

Background According to the abstract, this report studies the Soviet reaction to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Document Archive Soviet…

October 6, 2020

The 1983 War Scare in US-Soviet Relations, Undated (circa 1996)

Background This article was written for the CIA Studies in Intelligence. The author was Benjamin B. Fischer. In August of…

May 17, 2020

Principal Challenges in Post-Saddam Iraq, January 2003

Background At the request of the Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State, this. 6.2(d) Intelligence Community Assessment…

May 15, 2020

Defense Prisoner of War Missing in Action Office Reference Document, November 1993

Background This was a reference document created by the Department of Defense, of all personnel that were Prisoners of War…

April 22, 2020