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In October 2015, the private sector National Security Archive announced that it had won a 12-year legal battle to obtain a highly classified report prepared by the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) in 1990. Titled “The Soviet War,” the document is a 110-page postmortem on an issue that had roiled the Intelligence Community (IC) during the 1980s, namely whether some Soviet leaders actually believed their own warnings and propaganda in claiming that the United States was preparing to launch a “decapitating” surprise nuclear attack on the USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies
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