TRANSMITTAL OF INFORMATION ON SOVIET ECONOMIC AND MILITARY TECHNICIANS IN LDCS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08S01350R000100300004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 22, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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CIA No. ?91274
22 January 9
Major Theodore C. Frederick, III
E*gpgA~`1DUP'1 FOR: Army Operation Center
Department of Defense
Pentagon
SUBJECT Transmittal of Information on
Soviet Economic and Military
Technicians in LDCs
Attached is the data you requested on Soviet economic
and military technicians in less developed areas of the
Free World.
Trade and Aid Branch
office of Economic Research
Attachment:
As stated
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Soviet Economic and Military Technicians
in Less Developed Areas
of the Free World By Year,
1968-73 1/
1968
1969
1970
1971
19
72
1973
Economic
9,440
9,790
10,660
11,285'
11,
440
13,095
Africa
3,355
3,720
4,020
4,310
3,
965
4,590
East Asia
160
170
150
170
25
25
Latin America
30
20
30
60
225
185
Near East and
South Asia
5,895
5,880
6,460
6,745
7,
225
8,295
Military
7,315
6,745
10,125
9,450
9,
860
5,970
Africa
1,945
1,985
1,985
2,045
1,
755
1,645
East Asia
130
60
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Latin America
Near East and
.South Asia
5,240
4,700
8,140
7,405 2/
8,
105 3/
4,325
1. Minimum estimates of the number of persons. present for
one month or more. Numbers are rounded to the nearest five.
2. Does not include an estimated 7,500 military personnel
assigned to Soviet operational units in Egypt. These troops
were withdrawn in mid-1972.
3. Includes 5,500 Soviet military personnel stationed in Egypt.
By the end of 1972, only a few hundred Soviet advisers
remained in Egypt.
CIA/OE?
Jan 74
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