THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ACTIVE MEASURES PROGRAM WITHIN THE COLLABORATION AND INTELLIGENCE SHARING AMONG WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION MEMBER STATES’ SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AGAINST THE WEST AND NATO ALLIES DURING THE COLD WAR
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ACTIVE MEASURES PROGRAM WITHIN THE COLLABORATION AND INTELLIGENCE SHARING AMONG WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION MEMBER STATES’ SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AGAINST THE WEST AND NATO ALLIES DURING THE COLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the impact of the active measures program within thecollaboration and information exchanges among Warsaw Treaty Organizationmember states’ security and intelligence services against the West and NATO alliesduring the Cold War. The active measures conceived by the Soviets have been and stillare truly sophisticated instruments that generate strategic events with the aim ofcreating advantages on short, mid and long term. The Soviet active measures programwas an integrated part of the Warsaw Treaty Organization members’ security andintelligence services collaboration against what was known as a common enemy, theWest and NATO.From the very eve of institutionalized intelligence/counter intelligencestructures the cooperation and information sharing were a necessity for gatheringinformation. The fall of the Iron Curtain over Europe was the start of a race betweensecurity and intelligence services from East and West. The successful operations of theWarsaw Treaty members against the West and NATO were partly due to the cooperationof their security and intelligence structures, and a very important role was played by theactive measures program.The working hypotheses are: the insufficient studies dedicated to the subjectand the importance of the active measures for the past, present and future of thesecurity and intelligence services; declassification and further possibility of studyingdocuments relevant for the topic; the importance of bilateral and multilateralcooperation and information sharing during the Cold War inside the Warsaw TreatyOrganization; the extent of the active measures program in the field of cooperationand information sharing.

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