CIA Assessments of the Soviet Union:
The Record Versus the Charges

An Intelligence Monograph
by Douglas J. MacEachin

``Charges that CIA did not see and report the economic decline, societal deterioration, and political destabilization that ultimately resulted in the breakup of the Soviet Union simply are contradicted by the record.''

Table of Contents

• Foreword

• A Note About the Author

• What Did the CIA Say?

• The Failing System

• Enter Gorbachev

• The Showdown

• Failure To Predict What Did Not Happen

• The Tyrannical Numbers

• Some Lessons

Appendixes

• Excerpts From Cited References

• Bibliography

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