Topic: POLITIK - on December 20, 2011 at 10:56:00 AM CET
CIA Releases Documents on Reagan, Intelligence, and the End of the Cold War
In early November, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Information Management Services (IMS) declassified and released more than 200 documents highlighting intelligence the CIA provided to the Reagan Administration on key Soviet issues. The documents covered:
high-level arms control summits between former US President Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev,
Soviet attempts to revamp an increasingly inefficient and failing economic system, and
evidence of widening fissures in a Soviet society which was becoming increasingly difficult for Party leaders to control.
Highlights of the collection include video briefings** produced by the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence on such topics as the Soviet space program, the Andropov succession, the Chernobyl disaster, and the Soviet media portrait of America. These briefings represent the first time the Agency used videos on a regular basis to deliver intelligence to policymakers. The entire collection marks the first substantial release of such historical material.
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