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Soviet Leaders and Intelligence: Assessing the American Adversary During the Cold War
By Garthoff, Raymond L.
- ISBN
- 9781626162280 9781626162297 9781626162303
- Publisher
- Georgetown Univ.
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Reviewed on October 9, 2015 | Fiction
Garthoff (senior fellow emeritus, Brookings Inst.; Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan) proposes that Soviet intelligence assessments exerted little influence over the Soviet Union's high-level leadership or policymaking. This was because preconceptions and politics colored how the KGB and other Soviet spy agencies gathered, processed, and communicated intelligence. The agencies failed to prioritize analyzing or contextualizing espionage report...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
