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Soviet Leaders and Intelligence - Assessing the American Adversary during the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Soviet Leaders and Intelligence - Assessing the American Adversary during the Cold War (Hardcover)
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During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union
avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United
States. Although effective on an operational level, Soviet leaders
and their intelligence chiefs fell short when it came to analyzing
intelligence. Soviet leaders were often not receptive to
intelligence that conflicted with their existing beliefs, and
analysts were reluctant to put forward assessments that challenged
ideological orthodoxy. There were, however, important changes over
time. Ultimately the views of an enlightened Soviet leader,
Gorbachev, trumped the ideological blinders of his predecessors and
the intelligence service's dedication to an endless duel with their
ideologically spawned "main adversary," making it possible to end
the Cold War. Raymond Garthoff draws on over five decades of
personal contact with Soviet diplomats, intelligence officers,
military leaders, and scholars during his remarkable career as an
analyst, senior diplomat, and historian. He also builds on previous
scholarship and examines documents from Soviet and Western
archives. Soviet Leaders and Intelligence offers an informed and
highly readable assessment of how the Soviets understood-and
misunderstood-the intentions and objectives of their Cold War
adversary.
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