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This is a CIA Office of Research and Reports contribution to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-64, dated 6 October 1964, on the capabilities of Soviet general-purpose forces from 1964 to 1970. It updates evidence on Soviet doctrine for theater warfare, the effect of low wartime birth rates on military conscription and the labor supply, tactical missile systems, the Soviet and Satellite tactical air forces, and Soviet naval submarine, surface and air forces. The report does not mention unidentified flying objects.
TOP ECRET Table 1 Soviet Males Reaching Conscription Age a/ 1959-65 Thousand Persons Males Reaching Males Available Age 19 Durin for Con- Year the Year b/ scription C1 1959 2,040 1,530 to 1,630 1960 1,850 1,390 to 1,480 1961 1,220 920 to 980 1962 920 690 to 74o 1963 1,040 780 to 830 1964 1,260 940 to 1,olo 1965 1,580 1,180 to 1,260 a. Until June 1962, Soviet males became liable for conscrip- tion at age 19, except for general secondary school graduates who could be taken at age 18. In June 1962 the law was amended to make all males eligible for induction at age 18. As yet, however, the USSR has continued to rely on men 19 years of age for the largest part of its conscript classes. Men 18, 20, and 21 years of age continue to comprise the re- mainder, as in the past. b. From unpublished data compiled by the Foreign Demographic Division, Bureau of the Census, as of 1 January 1964. c. About 75 to 80 percent of an age group is estimated to be available for conscription. By 1959, however, the number of men in the military and security forces had been reduced by successive cuts since the Korean War period to the estimated level shown in Table 2.* At the level estimated for mid-1959, about 2.96 million conscripts would have been in service. Because con- scripts, other than those in the Navy, normally serve terms of 3 years, * P. 8, below. -7- TO EGRET
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