C.I.A. Papers Show Struggle to Keep Pace as U.S.S.R. Unraveled.

Reports that analysts at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were pessimistic about the efforts of Russia President Mikhail Gorbachev to reform its communism. Views of the CIA experts in the nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties on his reformation; Effort made by the CIA after the fall of the Berlin Wall to monitor political changes in Russia.