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Some Vintage, Interesting, Declassified CIA Reports–Nuclear War and the Coming of the Communists

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Following up on a few posts over the last two days on some striking CIA reports on such topics as the tactical employment of nuclear weapons in Vietnam are the following (the links taking you to the full documents), all taken from the CIA-Freedom of Information Act website of declassified reports:

Cia-seal
Soviet Capabilities for Attack on the U.S. through mid-1955  

The Strategic Value of the U.S.S.R.  the Conquest of Western Europe and theNear East
(to Cairo) 

1948 

Probable developments in China,. 
1949 

Probable Effects Soviet Union Atomic Bomb on the Security of the United States,
1950

Prospects for the Defense of Indochina
against a Chinese Communist Attack
,
1950

Prospects for Survival of the Republic of Korea,
1948

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