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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (12579)11/3/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 67261
 
For years the CIA was saying the USSR's economy was growing at twice the rate of USA's. They predicted with absolute conviction that USSR would surpass the US economy by the Mid 70's.



To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (12579)11/3/1998 4:35:00 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 67261
 
<<CIA intelligence on the USSR was never any good, because Angleton had the whole agency tied up in counterintelligence knots.>>

Couldn't have been too bad as Kennedy knew during the Cuban Missile Crisis that the USSR had fouled up their codes and were unable to launch their missiles.


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