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The National Intelligence Estimates cited in this brochure are available for review and reproduction at the National Archives in College ... 1 comment
In the aftermath of the political breakup of the Soviet Union, charges that CIA was oblivious to the deteriorating economy and corroding ... 1 comment
From the mid-1970s to the eve of Gorbachev's assumption of party leadership in the spring of 1985, the CIA portrayed a Soviet Union plagu... 1 comment
Princeton University's Center of International Studies and CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence have done a great job in organizing... 1 comment
The National Security Act of 1947 charged the Central Intelligence Agency with coordinating intelligence activity for the United States a... 1 comment
In the forefront of President Harry Truman's mind as he signed the order establishing the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) in 1946 was co... 1 comment
During the entire period of the long Cold War (1945-1991), the United States faced in the USSR an adversary it believed was bent on world... 1 comment
American statesmanship, aided at times by perceptive Estimates, was instrumental in identifying and seizing an opportunity to end the Col... 2 comments
President George Bush entered office in January 1989 determined to put his own stamp on America's foreign policy and make US-Soviet relat... 1 comment
1993: Leon Theremin dies in Moscow. The Russian-born inventor leaves behind a legacy that touches several technical and creative discipli... 1 comment
Charlie Wilson, the former congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the mov... 1 comment
For Vladimir Putin, three months may feel like a political lifetime. The sudden rise of Russia’s democracy movement is posing the biggest... 1 comment


