Description: A Catch-22 December 1989, Groundhog-Day Production. Presenting the Personal Research & Scholarship of Richard Andrew Hall, Ph.D.
Posted by romanianrevolutionofdecember1989 on January 4, 2015
(purely personal views as always, based on two decades of prior research and publications)
***UPDATED: from the Wilson Center Digital Archive. Released to the public on 10 December 2019, https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/633/cia-reports-on-the-collapse-of-communism-in-europe/5 . At least one Bucharest daily has over the course of the last few days been translating and publishing these documents. Unfortunately, if predictably, the portions of this document with the highest classification (sources and methods), and hence best stuff, have been redacted. Still the overall conclu