Document No. 15: State Department Intelligence and Research Report: “Economic Reform in the USSR and Eastern Europe”, September 16, 1987
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This succinct assessment from the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research reviews the progress of economic reform in the socialist countries and notes surprisingly that “[t]here is no apparent organized opposition in the USSR to Gorbachev’s reform” although “vested interests” will constrain reform in Eastern Europe. There, Bulgaria is the best prospect, according to the analysis, but the Poles could also “achieve some liberalization.” Missing in particular is a sense of the tra...