November 24, 2014
Forecasting Nuclear War: Stasi/KGB Intelligence Cooperation under Project RYaN
Between 1981 and 1989 the foreign intelligence branches of the Soviet KGB and the East German Ministry of State Security launched a combined effort to develop a system for detecting signs of an impending western nuclear first strike. Codenamed “Project RYaN”, this early-warning system constituted one part of the Soviet response to the perceived threat of a surprise “decapitation” strike by NATO nuclear forces.
Join us on December 1st as Bernd Schaefer, Nate Jones, and Benjamin Fischer discuss these newly translated sources and give unprecedented insight into the capabilities and fears of the Eastern Bloc intelligence services from the Able Archer ’83 War Scare to the end of the Cold War.
Professional Lecturer, The George Washington University
Nate Jones
Freedom of Information Act Coordinator for the National Security Archive
Benjamin Fischer
Former Chief Historian of the Central Intelligence Agency
CWIHP is a part of the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program
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