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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 Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421 1976: Vest stat, no. 9 1977, p. 90. 1975: USDA Agricultural Situation: Review of I978 and Outlook for I97 9, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, April 1979, p. 12. 1973-74: Vest stat, no. 10, 1975, p. 89. 1971-72: Vest stat, no 10, 1974, p. 89. 1960, 1965, 1970: Maslo-zhirovaya pr0myshlenn0st', no. 8, 1972, p. 8. 1963-64, 1966-69: Total soybean production is esti- mated on the assumption that RSFSR production accounts for 98 percent of total output (Ek selkhoz, no. 7, 1973, p. 46). Soybean production in the RSFSR for the relevant years is reported in Narkhoz RSFSR I965, p. 243 and Narkhoz RSFSR I969, p. 184. 1961-62: Straight line interpolation between 1960 and 1963. 1950, 1953-59: Selkhoz I960, p. 202-203. 1951-52: Output in 1950 is moved forward to 1951 and 1952 using an index of sown area from Posevnyye ploshchadi SSSR, vol. 2, Moscow, 1957, p. 94. Other oilseeds This category includes castorbeans, mustard seed, flaxseed, hemp seed, tung nuts, peanuts, falseflax, rape, colza, sesame, and others. Output is estimated by subtracting production of soybeans and sunflower seeds form total oilseed output. Total oilseed produc- tion is reported in the following sources. 1975-79: Narkhoz I979, p. 220. 1970-74: Narkhoz I975, p. 318. 8 1950, 1960-69: Selkhoz 1971, pp. 148-149. 1953, 1959: Narkhoz 1962, pp. 234-235. 1956-58: Selkhoz I960, pp. 26-27. 1955: Narkhoz I960, p. 375. 1954: Calculated from, 1954-58 average production given in Narkhoz 1960, p. 375. 1951-52: Estimated by moving 1950 total oilseed production forward with an index of sunflower seed production. Fiber flax 1976-79: Narkhoz I979, p. 120. 1971-75: Narkhoz I975, p. 369. 1950-70: Selkhoz I971, p. 201. Tea (procurements) 1975-79: Narkhoz I979, p. 261. 1971-74: Narkhoz I975, p. 382. 1960-70: Selkhoz I971, p. 239. 1953, 1955-59: Selkhoz I960, pp. 90, 257. 1951-52, 1954: Total tea procurements are estimated by moving 1950 procurements forward with an index of tea procurements in Georgia, which accounts for over 95 percent of Soviet tea procurements. Procure- ment figures for Georgia are found in Narodnoye khozyaystvo Gruzinskoy SSR v I962 gody, Tbilisi, 1963, pp. 134-135.’ 1950: Strana sovetov za 60 let, Moscow, 1967, p. 147 Milk, eggs, wool 1979: Vest stat, no. 9, 1980, p. 79. 1978: Vest stat, no. 10, 1979, p. 78. 1954-77: Vest stat, no. 6, 1979, p. 66. 1953: Selkhoz I960, p. 350, 355, 360. 1951-52: Narkhoz I967, p. 332. 19.50: Narkhoz I965, p. 378, 474, 476. Honey 1979: Vest stat, no. 9, 1980, p. 79. 1978: Vest stat, no 10, 1979, p. 78. 1977: Vest stat, no. 10, 1978, p. 95. 1976: Vest stat, no. 9, 1977, p. 90. 1975: Straight line interpolation. 1973-74: Vest stat, no. 10, 1975, p. 95. 1972: Vest stat, no. 10, 1974, p. 93. 1972: Straight line interpolation 1950, 1960-70: Selkhoz I971, p. 322. 1953, 1956-59: Selkhoz 1960, p. 333. 1951-52, 1954-55: Straight line interpolation Silk cocoons 1 1979: Vest stat, no. 9, 1980, p. 79. 1978: Vest stat, no. 10, 1979, p. 78. 1975-77: Narkhoz I978, p. 203. 1965, 1970-74: Narkhoz 1975, p. 325. 1950, 1960 1966-69: Selkhoz I971, p. 53. 1963-64: Narkhoz I965, p. 268. 1961-62: Narkhoz I962, p. 238. 1953, 1955-59: Selkhoz I960, p. 91. 1954: Calculated using data on annual average pro- curements for 1954-58 and on annual procurements for 1955-58. 1951-52: Straight line interpolation. 287 Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 399 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.