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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.
Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421 Table C_4 Billion 1970 Rubles‘ on assumptions about the proportlons of the ldentlfied Fa¢mr-(;os1p,-ices components of GNP whlch mlght represent defense Estimated Soviet Defense expenditures. These C21lCUl8.ll0I‘lS 1nd1cate that the Expenditures, l951_80 1ndependent estimates of defense expendntures are reasonably consistent w1th our GNP data Yea; Upper Bound LowerBound 7, I951 33 19 I952 33 20 I953 30 I9 I954 31 20 I955 36 24 I956 34 23 I957 30 21 I958 30 22 I959 29 22 1960 31 23 I961 34 26 I962 38 29 I963 39 3] I964 42 34 I965 43 35 1966 44 36 I967 47 39 _ I968 50 42 I969 52 43 I970 53 44 _ I971 54 45 I972 56 46 I973 58 48 1974 62 51 I975 65 53 I976 69 56 I977 70 56 I978 72 57 I979 75 59 1980 79 62 123 Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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