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USSR: Measures of Economic Growth and Development, 1950-80

Central Intelligence Agency · 1982-12-08 · 399 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Joint Committee Print, dated December 8, 1982, gathers studies that the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. It gives estimates of Soviet gross national product for 1950 to 1980, with indexes of industrial production, agricultural production and consumption, and explains the methods and data behind them. The foreword says official Soviet statistics inflate growth and that the CIA measures offer a more accurate picture. The document contains no UFO material.

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  • p. 20 …The Soviets have never published '° See USSR' Toward a Reconciliation of Marxist and Western Measures of…
  • p. 21 …It is never clear, however, whether these books represent official state- ments or personal opinions. The…
  • p. 42 …Although the requirements are never perfectly met, market prices of most Western industrialized coun- tries fit…
  • p. 206 …Domestically produced ma- chinery that is exported never appears in the invest- ment data. Likewise, imported…
  • p. 263 …These instructions were never publicly disseminated, but are believed to represent an alter- ._ ation in the…
  • p. 266 …These amounts are never recorded as gross output and therefore need not be deducted; they represent…
Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
Part I. GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT OF THE USSR, 1950-80
By John Pitzer
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Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421

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