Also see "Next Stop Execution" by Oleg Gordievsky, who was a KGB colonel secretly working for the UK at this time. The Soviet leadership was certain that the We

Also see "Next Stop Execution" by Oleg Gordievsky, who was a KGB colonel secretly working for the UK at this time. The Soviet leadership was certain that the West was planning a pre-emptive nuclear strike and put pressure on the KGB via Project Ryan to find out all it could. Of course this pressure meant that some KGB front-line people started inventing stuff because that was clearly a way to promotion. So project Ryan appeared to confirm the worst suspicions of the Soviet leadership. And then NATO starts deploying in exactly the way you would expect if the strike were imminent...