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Operation RYAN (or RYaN, and sometimes written as VRYAN,[1] Russian: РЯН, IPA: [rʲæn]) was a Cold War military intelligence program run by the Soviet Union during the early 1980s when they believed the United States was planning for an imminent first strike attack. The name is an acronym for Raketno-Yadernoe Napadenie (Russian: Ракетно-ядерное нападение, "Nuclear Missile Attack"). The purpose of the operation was to collect intelligence on potential contingency plans of the Reagan administration to launch a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union.[2][3][4] The program was initiated in May 1981 by Yuri Andropov, then chairman of the KGB.
- ^ President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (15 February 1990). The Soviet "War Scare" (PDF) (Report). p. vi.
- ^ Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (2000). The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West. Gardners Books. ISBN 0-14-028487-7.
- ^ [1] by Benjamin B. Fischer
- ^ Benjamin B. Fischer. "A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare — Appendix A: RYAN and the Decline of the KGB".
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