Ronald Reagan Cold War Ending CIA Files

Ronald Reagan Cold War Ending CIA Files
                             
2,890 pages of CIA files covering CIA information provided to Ronald Reagan between 1980 and 1989, related to the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
 
The document collection featured in theis colledction includes intelligence assessments, National Intelligence Estimates, high-level memos, DCI talking points, CIA finished intelligence reports and other reporting. Also included are non-CIA documents from the archives of the Reagan Library, including minutes from relevant National Security Council and National Security Planning Group meetings on key US-Soviet issues, as well as copies of key National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs).

The document coverage includes high-level arms control summits between former US President Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet attempts to revamp an increasingly inefficient and failing economic system, and evidence of widening fissures in a Soviet society which was becoming increasingly difficult for Communist Party leaders to control.

Highlights within the documents include:

Documents on CIA briefings of President-elect Reagan and his staff in the months before Reagan took office.

A July 17, 1981 Interagency Memo on Discussion of U.S. Intelligence Needs on Soviet Ballistic Missile Defense, with tasking memo from Richard Allen.

A November 16, 1981 National Security Decision Directive Number 15 titled, Theater Nuclear Forces.

An April 1, 1982 NIC Memo titled. "The Soviet Bloc Financial Problem as a Source of Western Influence," with cover memo to the Director of Center Intelligence from NIC Chairman.

An April 1, 1982 DI Intelligence Assessment, the Soviet Political Succession: Institutions, People, and Policies.

An April 21, 1982 meeting minutes of a National Security Council Meeting on Strategic Arms Reductions Talks.

An April 3, 1982 Letter to the President from William J. Casey regarding Soviet Political Succession.

A May 1, 1982 DI Research Paper, Soviet Economic "Reform" Decrees: More Steps on the Treadmill.

A May 5, 1982 Tasking memo from DCI Casey to Deputy Director for Intelligence on Policy Implications of Soviet Succession.

A June 25, 1982 Special National Intelligence Estimate, Soviet Policies and Activities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

An Internal NIC Memo dated July 26, 1982, The Soviet Challenge to US Security Interests.

A DI Intelligence Assessment dated August 1, 1982, Depressed Trajectories: Unlikely Role for Soviet SLBMs.

A National Intelligence Estimate dated October 13, 1982, Soviet Ballistic Missile Defense, Key Judgments and Summary.

A May 27, 1983 DI Memo, with two cover notes, titled Soviet Use of Economic Relations for Political Purposes.

A September 12, 1983 NIC Interagency Intelligence Assessment, Possible Soviet Responses to the US Strategic Defense Initiative.

A November 24, 1987 Memo by DDCI Gates, Gorbachev's Gameplan: The Long View.

DI Research Paper, December 1, 1987, The Chernobyl Accident: Social and Political Implications.

NSC Memo to President Reagan from Colin Powell, dated May 21, 1988, regarding Background Film for your Moscow Summit Trip.