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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 Table 7 1 Average Annual Percentage Rates of Growth Comparisons of CIA Index of Total Consumption With Indexes Constructed by Bergson, Chapman, andl}ecker 7 195]-55 1956-58 1951-58 1959-64 CIA“ > 6.3 6.5 AW 6.4 _*‘___‘3.9 }_3<=rgS9g}’ 9-l(8-1) __ _ A___ _ _ Chap- man C 7.9 7.4 7.7 Becker <1 5.3 H Table A-1. b Consumption is valued at 1950 prevailing prices. (Bergson, l961, pp. 85, 149). Figure in parenthesis reflects a valuation in 1950 ruble factor cost. ° Chapman, Ioc. cit., pp. 238, 271. The index for 1951-55 is calculated in adjusted market prices of 1937, taken or derived from ‘ data in Bergson, 1961, pp. 128, 134, 165. The extension to 1958 is based on estimated values in current prices and various deflators. Sources are given in Chapman, loc. cit., p. 272. *1 Underlyng values are in 1958 established prices. Becker, 1969, p. 526. 336 Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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