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In February 1980, the Central Intelligence Agency published an interagency memo that evaluated the worldwide response to the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. It is a fascinating prodcut of its time because it shows how the Cold War alliances impacted several of the nation-states response to Soviet aggression. Additionally, the CIA was interested in determining sought to determine which states where now viewed the Soviet Union hurt its credibilitySoviets more negatively than before. It also provides a fairly comprehensive overview of how the world perceived and reacted to the Soviet Invasion. Some portions of the memo were redacted, but most of the memo was preserved. In a few portions of the memo, we have included the word "REDACTED" where meaningful portions of the text were missing.