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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 Rele The following section provides a brief discussion of post-war trends in per capita consumption and changes in its structure. Then follows a general description and evaluation of the overall index of Soviet consumption and a comparison with official Soviet measures as well as the two measures devel- oped by Western scholars for part of the period. A final section presents, describes and evaluates the component indexes for major categories of goods and services. Descriptions of indexes and weights and the documentation for their derivation are intentionally quite complete. ase: 2019/07/19 C05210421 324 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.