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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's Current Intelligence Weekly Summary of 23 March 1962, a secret digest from the Office of Current Intelligence covering world events. It reviews Soviet foreign policy on Berlin, the Berlin air corridors, disarmament and a nuclear test ban. It also covers Algeria, Argentina's elections, the Congo, Laos, South Vietnam, Guatemala, food rationing in Cuba and Middle East tensions. Special articles assess Brazil under Goulart and Turkey's economic prospects. It contains no UFO material.
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Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 »—\ ,5 /saexfi CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY capital to finance industrial expansion. This could be accom- plished through increased ex- ports of raw and semifinished products during the 1963-68 period if a well-designed pro- gram of resource allocation were followed. Metallic and other mate- rials appear to offer the best immediate prospects. Commer- cially exploitable deposits of iron ore, chrome, copper, mer- cury, zinc, and boron are found in many parts of Turkey, and current exploration suggests that large deposits of these and other minerals still re- main undiscovered. Nearly all the mines now being worked are fairly accessible to ports or markets. It appears likely therefore that the mining out- put could expand rapidly to meet increases in demand. The fuel situation is less promising. Although coal production can probably keep pace with growing domestic re- quirements, oil production has fallen far short of earlier estimates and now shows little promise of relieving the seri- ous drain of foreign exchange for imports of petroleum prod- ucts. Some saving will be realized by the planned expan- sion of refining capacity, how- ever. Agricultural products will remain an important source of foreign exchange, but consid- erable revision of present prac- tices will be needed. Turkey's agriculture was characterized until the present decade by vast areas devoted to produc- tion of a few locally consumed items. Specialized cash crops which entered into international trade were grown in several places, but the amount of rev- enue they produced was slight. These crops included tobacco, dried and fresh fruit, hazel- nuts, pistachios, and cotton. Tobacco and cotton are usually good export items, but Turkey's tobacco crop is de- pendent on special conditions of soil and climate found only in a small area along the Black Sea coast which is already in- tensely cultivated. Production of short-staple cotton ¢QU1d‘be .‘ . M greatly expanded, however. Con- siderable land suitable for cot- ton growing is found along the Syrian border, and water from the Upper Euphrates system is available for irrigation. If Turkey were admitted to the Common Market, increased demand from this quarter could be met by eastward expansion of the present cotton-producing area. Turkey's leading cereal crop, wheat, appears to hold little promise of becoming a reliable export item. Its pro- duction was artificially stimu- lated under the Menderes gov- ernment, and for a time Turkey ranked as one of the leading world exporters. A great deal of marginal land was brought into production, however; and droughts of recent years cul- minated in the disastrous crop failure of 1961, which necessi- tated a Turkish request for US wheat. The government plans to convert much of the marginal wheat land in the eastern prov- inces to livestock use, and to increase intensive farming practices in the Aegean and Mediterranean regions. Both of these schemes appear feasible and could result in more effi- cient land use, but they will require heavy capital outlays and extensive retraining of the local populations. Large areas of Turkey are well suited for stock raising, and a ready foreign market ex- ists for meat and animal prod- ucts, but although sales of live animals and hides from the east- ern provinces to neighboring countries have increased in re- cent years, Turkey's potential as a meat-producing region of international significance has gone unrecognized. The scrub stock raised on open pasture is slaughtered and consumed lo- cally, with finishing-off for market practiced only in areas near sugar refineries, where the animals are fed beet pulp. With adequate government invest- ment in breed improvement, in refrigerated storage and trans- portation equipment, and in feed- lot and slaughterhouse facilities, the establishment of a good stock- raising and meat-packing industry in Turkey seems possible. The development of inten- sive agriculture in the western /seen-FF 23 Mar 52 SPECIAL ARTICLES Page? of 8' Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167
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