At Cold War's end
Subtitle: US intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991
By: editor, Benjamin B. Fischer.
Contributors: Fischer, Ben B.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Publisher: Central Intelligence Agency
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [Reston, Va.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- Sources.; Cold War -- Sources.; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1985-1991 -- Sources.; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Sources.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-1993.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Europe, Eastern -- Sources.; Europe, Eastern -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.; Europe, Eastern -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Genres: Sources.
Description: National Intelligence Estimates and other intelligence assessments reveal publicly how US Intelligence Community interpreted and predicted rapidly unfolding events that led to collapse of communism and end of the Cold War. The Bush administration's stewardship of American foreign policy coincided with some momentous changes of the 20th century. Estimates that seemed premature or pessimistic or alarmist often turned out to be too conservative in their forecasts. Some key events happened so quickly and unexpectedly that they do not appear in any of the Estimates. The Estimates often accurately anticipated an event or development but misjudged the time it would take for it to materialize.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Shipping list no.: 2000-0061-P.
Also available via Internet at the CIA web site. Address as of 01/07/2000: http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html; current access is available via PURL.