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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: Table B-5 USSR: Derivation of 1970 Average Prices for Other Oilseeds Value (thousand rubles) Procurement (rubles per ton) Quantity Produced (thousand tons) 113 68 245 250 800 375 402 Flax seed Mustard seed Castor beans 71 Other 9 Total 261 27,685 17,000 56,800 3,375 104,860 Flax fiber, tobacco, and makhorka These commodities are priced at 1970 procurement prices received by collective farms. Data are from O.F. Lopatina and S.V. Frayer, Ekonomika sotsialis- ticheskogo seltskogo khozaystvo, Moscow, 1973, p. 413. Oil crops The average price for all oil crops (203 rubles per ton) is the weighted sum of prices for individual crops. Sunflower seed The price (187 rubles per ton) is taken from CIA, GNP I970, p. 32. Soybeans The price (260 rubles per ton) is the RSFSR list procurement price from G.V. Kulik et al., Sprav0ch- nik ekonomista kolkhoza i sovkhoza, Moscow, 1970, p. 301. Other This category includes flax seed, mustard seed, castor beans, and other minor oilseeds. All prices are RSFSR list procurement prices from Kulik et al., op. cit., p. 301. Prices for flax seed, mustard seed, castor beans and other minor oilseeds are weighted together with 1971 production data from Vest stat, no. 10, 1974, p. 89. Other minor oilseeds include hemp seed, tung nuts, peanuts, falseflax, rape, colza, sesame, and others. The price (402 rubles per ton) is the weighted 2019/07/19 C05210421 sum of RSFSR procurement prices for peanuts (600 rubles per ton), falseflax (135 rubles per ton) and rape (170 rubles per ton). Prices are weighted arbitrarily assuming a 50 percent share for peanuts, 25 percent for falseflax, and 25 percent for rape (table B-5). Tea , 1 Tea is valued at the actual procurement price received by state and collective farms in 1970 (940 rubles per ton). Data are from Ye.S. Karnaukhova et al., Ek0no- mika sotsialisticheskogo sel 'sk0g0 khozyaystva, Moscow, 1970, p. 418; and G.G. Badiryan, op. cit., p. 394. Meat, slaughter weight The average realized price for all meat (2351 rubles per ton) is the weighted sum of prices for individual types of meat (table B-6). To calculate prices for slaughter weight quantities, the ruble value of live- weight marketings are divided by slaughter weight quantities. The underlying assumption is that the unusable portions (the weight difference between live weight and slaughter weight) are of zero value. Milk, eggs, and wool Average realized prices for milk, eggs, and wool are from CIA, GNP I970, p. 32-34. Prices for milk (196 rubles per ton) and eggs (100 rubles per thousand units) apply both to production and to quantities used in production for feed (milk) and hatching eggs. Honey The price (1600 rubles per ton) is the RSFSR procure- ment price from G.V. Kulik et al, Spravochnik ek0n0- mista kolkhoza i sovkhoza, Moscow, 1970, p. 383. RSFSR procurement prices were used because 70 percent of all honey originates in this region. Silk cocoons Almost half of silk cocoon procurements came from Uzbekistan in 1970. Narkhoz Uzbekskoy SSR I971, pp. 103, 139-140 shows receipts of collective farms and of private producers from state procurement of silk cocoons in 1970 as well as quantities sold. The average procurement price (5100 rubles per ton) is derived by dividing receipts by quantities sold. 300 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 above. 399 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.