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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 Appendix B USSR: Average Realized 1970 Prices of Agricultural Commodities Grain _ The average price received by all producers for all types of grain (103 rubles per ton) is calculated in CIA, GNP 1970, p. 32. Average realized prices for individual types of grain were estimated on the basis of the variation among procurement prices paid to collective farms for each grain in 1970 (table B-1). The ratio of collective farm procurement prices for individual grains to the overall grain price received by collective farms is applied to the average grain price received by all Soviet producers for all grain. Potatoes The average price received by all producers (1 I4 rubles per ton) is reported in CIA, GNP I970, p. 32. Vegetables The average price received by all producers (I63 rubles per ton) is reported in CIA, GNP I970, p. 32. The relationship between state procurement prices for all vegetables and for individual types of vegetables is used to estimate average prices received by all produc- ers for each vegetable (table B-2). Table B-1 USSR: Derivation of 1970 Average Realized Prices for Individual Types of Grain v ~ Prices Received by Collective Farms (rubles per ton) Ratio of Prices for. i Estimated Average Individual Grains to Realized Price Average Price (rubles per ton)“ for All Grain i Total grain 101 1* '-°" _ ________ Wheat 101 b 1.00 103 Rye _ 1141» ~ 1.13 T_ I W "7 I W I I Buckwheat 300 '= 116 2.91 Rice '_ 300 d 2.97 C_orn I35 <= _ 306 1,34 Oats 81 b 0.80 Barley 80 b g 306 0.79 Millet 80 b Pulses 1 l l C Other I 60 4 H Vop ek, no. 1, 1973, p.57. ' b Calculated on the basis of data expressing 1970 procurement prices as a percent of 1965 prices in A. I. Stepanov, Khleb rossii, Moscow, I973, pp. 275-276 and V.P. Boyev, Zernovoyye i maslichnyye kul’tury, no. 7, 1969, p. 9. k C Actual I971 procurement prices received by collective farms. Since the procurement price for wheat did not change between 1970 and 1971, the I971 prices for other grains are assumed applicable. The TI Q if 3.51 ;: "Q I ._.._-,. .__._.__8%z .. , 3! ...... 2 ___ _ 0.79 _____ if”? A - Wtiflififli W A i 7 i V 1-1° _ ____.,,__l_1_.3__ _,__ __,., ___. . 0.59 61 1971 prices are computed from data in V.P. Boyev. Sovershens!vo- vaniye zakupochnykh tsen na sel 'sk0kh0zyays!vennu_vu pr0duk!- siya, Moscow, p. I56 and in A. Ye. Kaminsk, Ekonomika zernovogo khozyaystvo, Moscow, 1970, p.l88. <1 List procurement prices are reported in G. V. Kulik et al., Spmvochnik economista kolkhoza i sovkhoza, Moscow, I970. p. 298. = Calculated by multiplying column 2 times I03 rubles per ton. 297 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.