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The Central Intelligence Agency and the Soviet Union are linked through the agency's role in monitoring and countering Soviet activities, as evidenced by the CIA's focus on Soviet expansionism [1], its internal assessments of Soviet intelligence [2], its struggle with Soviet disinformation [3], and its efforts to analyze the Soviet economy [4].
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History of the Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
claimThe Central Intelligence Agency's economic data regarding the Soviet Union was consistently incorrect.
quoteWilliam J. Crowe, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that the Central Intelligence Agency discussed the Soviet Union as if they were not reading newspapers, let alone developing clandestine intelligence.
claimThe Central Intelligence Agency discovered that many of the sources for its most important analyses of the Soviet Union were based on Soviet disinformation fed to the agency by controlled agents.
The Evolution of the U.S. Intelligence Community-An Historical ... govinfo.gov 1 fact
accountThe U.S. government considered initiating psychological warfare operations overseas to counter Soviet expansionism, but the National Security Council initially preferred that the State Department, rather than the CIA, be responsible for them.