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Foreign Missile Threats: Analytic Soundness of Certain National Intelligence Estimates

NSIAD-96-225 Published: Aug 30, 1996. Publicly Released: Sep 12, 1996.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the soundness of certain national intelligence estimates (NIE) on the threat to the United States from foreign missile systems, focusing on comparing the content and conclusions of NIE 95-19, which analyzed emerging threats to North America during the next 15 years, with the content and conclusions of two previous NIEs prepared in 1993.

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