**Declassified National Intelligence Estimates on the SovietUnion and International Communism, 1946-1984
*The National Intelligence Estimates cited in this brochureare available for review and reproduction at the National Archivesin College Park, MD.  I believe they constitute the most comprehensivecollection of once highly sensitive intelligence analysis of theformer Soviet Union and International Communism ever releasedby the US Intelligence Community.  Most were declassified in 1993and 1994, and another 59 that assess Soviet conventional militarycapabilities were released this year.  Other Estimates on Sovietmilitary, civil defense, and space exploration efforts are indeclassification review.*
*The Center for the Study of Intelligence intends to declassifyother Estimates on the USSR that are at least 10 years old.  Ourreview is done in consultation with appropriate components ofthe Intelligence Community, and especially with those that participatedin producing these assessments for senior officials in the administrationsof eight presidents, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan.*
*Furthermore, the Center has embarked on a new declassificationreview, consistent with the provisions of Executive Order 12958. Significant analysis on the USSR that was completed by CIA'sIntelligence Directorate from the Agency's inception in September1947 through the collapse of the USSR in August 1991 will be reviewedfor declassification.  We cannot project how long this effortwill take, but it will remain one of the Center's highest declassificationreview priorities.*
*Readers of many of the declassified Estimates will discoverthat some excisions have been made to protect important intelligencesources and methods.  But the redactions do not reduce the substantivevalue of this large and diverse collection.  In almost all instances,the judgments, flow of analysis, and full meaning of the Estimateshave been undiminished.*
*Our sole purpose in opening these records is to enrich scholarlyand public understanding of how intelligence analysis illuminatedcore Cold War issues.  Readers can be assured that no redactionshave been made to camouflage assessments or analytic approachesthat, over time, proved wrong.  No effort has been made to withholdEstimates, or portions of them, that anyone might consider embarrassingto the CIA or to the Intelligence Community.*
*With these documents on the public record, historians and otherscholars will be able to better judge how well intelligence analystsdid over the years in understanding the USSR and to what extenttheir assessments were insightful, accurate, and useful to policymakers.*
*Brian Latell**Director**Center for the Study of Intelligence**Central Intelligence Agency**September 1996*

The documents listed have been declassified **only in part.** The number of pages in parentheses are the number of **declassified** pages, not the total number of pages in the NIE. Sections of the documents remain classified for national security reasons. Most of the released pages contain portions that have been deleted for similar reasons.Click on the following to view that years Estimates**[1946] [1947] [1948] [1949] [1950] [1951] [1952] [1953] [1954] [1955] [1956] [1957] [1958] [1959] [1960] [1961] [1962] [1963] [1964] [1965] [1966] [1967] [1968] [1969] [1970] [1971] [1972] [1973] [1974] [1975] [1976] [1977] [1978] [1979] [1980] [1981] [1982] [1983] [1984][Access Information]**

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