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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.
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Approved for Re lease: 2019/07/19 C05210421 Table D—4 (Continued) Sources to this table (Continued): Sources: All data are from CIA, GNP I970, p. 57, except for poultry. The poultry inventory data are from Selkhoz 1971, p. 273. The poultry price is derived by Margaret Hughes and Barbara ‘ Severin in JEC, Agriculture, p. 51. (4) Capital repair is derived as the sum of collective-farm outlays (0.918 billion rubles), amortization deductions for capital repair (14.663 billion rubles), and budget expenditures for capital repair (3.419 billion rubles). The collective-farm outlays are from CIA, GNP I 970, p. 55. The amortization deductions are from Narkhoz I 978, p. 532. The budget expenditures reported for union-republic budgets (2.4993 billion rubles—Gosbyudzhet I972, p. 81) are assumed to represent 73.1 percent of total budget-financed capital repair expenditures, the same share as used in the derivation of the acquisition of equipment by budget-supported institutions in item 3,a,(1) above. b. Inventories. See CIA, GNP I970, p. 55. 4. Research and development. This item is derived as the sum of wages (5.020 billion rubles), social insurance deductions (0.276 billion rubles), depreciation (0.165 billion rubles), profits (0.094 billion rubles), charges for special funds (0.325 billion rubles), and material expenditures (4.463 billion rubles). The wage bill is derived from employment (2.999 mi1lion—Narkh0z I978, p. 366) and the average wage rate (139.5 rubles per month-—-Ibid, p. 373). Social insurance deductions are calculated as 5.5 percent of the wage bill (CIA, GNP I970, p. 56). Depreciation, profits, and charges for special funds are estimated in table D-9. Material expenditures are estimated in the same manner. as the corresponding component of the research and development index (appendix B, table B-18). 5. Outlays n.e.c. a. Net exports. This was derived as the difference between total exports and total imports valued in foreign trade prices (Narkhoz 1978, p. 547). . b. Defense n.e.c., unidentified outlays, and statistical discrepancy. This was derived as the difference between total outlays (item 8) and the sum of items 1 through 4; 5,a; and 7. 6. Consolidated total value of goods and services exclusive of sales to households. This was derived as the sum of items 1 through 5. 7. Transfer outlays. See table D-1, item 8. 8. Consolidated total outlays. These are equal to total incomes, table D-3, item 9. Approved for Re 140 lease: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 399 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.