PROPOSED EXTERNAL RESEARCH PROJECT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE EASTERN EUROPEAN SATELLITES

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• Publication Date: August 3, 1953
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MEMORAIWOti FOR: Project Review Committee
SUBIECT Proposed External Research Project on Econexalc
Development in the Eastern European Satellites
Problem
lo To provide an =classified. ana-17318 of the economic develeemeit in
the Beate:el European Satellites under Soviet ccarbro7.0
Discus Bien:
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2.np.p Reports has reviewed the emsplerted. chapters
of the project, "Caw:mist Takeeever
and "Economic Reshaping" of Eastern Europe, is partMErgill 25X1A5a1
25X1A5a1 D considers the draft, as submitted, to be of high quell $ lieves
that it contains information and analysis of Interest and value.
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4. This Office is in need of an -opetoedate analysis of economic develop-
remt of /tress under Soviet control. Speciflea13,y? the Services Division is
in need of en sealysis of the services sector of the economy insofar as the
rate and direction of growth of this sector has been affected by the Inans.
triaLization program. Information is also reeled on mellower (problem of
creating an industrial labor force), the plarming process (the Soviet role
in Satellite ), and the Satellite foreign trade etructurso
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5. 'iM???? 2,15Aligtladhiefs, Services Division, MR have
discussed. the possibilities of tinning his attention to an analysis
of ecaaeraic trawls in the Eastern European Satellites which will provide a
useful check easiest Agency analyses made with classified. Information, It
was agreed that such a study would be feasible and. valuable,
6, An outline of the proposed project is attached as Tab Ao
70 The project would. be eholly unclassified. No revelation of classified
information wild be involved.?
8. Mentors of the Economic Intelligence Coramittee have been fully informed
of this proposed project, It has been detannined that this project does not
duplicate 9,137 work of the agencies represented on the Committee. Special.
interest in the project was expressed by the EIC representative for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff* The representatives of the Departments of State, Army, Navy
nod Air Force expressed no particular departemarctel interest, The Departmut
of State representative considered the project ambitious and lospressed some
doubt as to whether it could. be acecesslished.
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A budget is attached as Tab Bo
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