Secret but Obvious: Soviet-Romanian and RomanianCMEA relations in the CIA economic intelligence analysis, the early 60s – mid-70s
Secret but Obvious. Soviet-Romanian and Romanian-CMEA relations in the CIA economic intelligence analysis, the early 60s – mid-70s

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the evolution of the CIA economic intelligence assessments on Romania’s relation with the USSR and the CMEA since the early 60s till mid-70s. As the newly revealed CIA documents state the process has passed through three main stage. Until the late 60s, the intelligence analysts have had some hopes about Romania’s progress in achieving more independence from the USSR and the CMEA in her economic development. At the very end of the 60s and early 70s, they already noted Ceausescu’s inability to succumb directly to the Soviet and the CMEA plans due to economic difficulties. In the early 70s, the CIA analysts came to the conclusion that Bucharest doomed to manoeuvre in the economic and political field in order to get benefits both from the East and the West.

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