The CIA has made available a huge number of declassified documents for searching and viewing online. It looks like an incredible resource. A few of the very many documents I plan to look at more carefully include (brief skims show both wild mispredictions and sharp insights):
- “Indira Gandhi: Strategy, Power, Plans” (1972)
- “Burma: Prospects for Reform of Ne Win’s ‘No Win’ Economic Policies” (1988)
- “Pakistan: Zia’s Position Talking Points for the DCI 19 January 1984” (1984)
- “Pakistan: Prospects for the Zia Government” (1981)
- Schultz to Reagan on how to protect US strategic in face of Pakistani nuclear program (1982)
- “The Burmese Communist Party: A Power in the Golden Triangle” (1982)
- “NIE 36/1: Prospects for the Survival of a Non-Communist Regime in Burma” (1951)
- “Sheikh Abdullah and the Kashmir Issue” (1964)
- “India’s Troubled Eastern Region” (1968)
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