UNCLASSIFIED USE OF INFORMATION (Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00545A000100020028-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: November 18, 1958
• Content Type: MFR

Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-
100020028-4
18 November 1958
SUBJECT: Unclassified Use of Information Contained
in Memorandum to DCI of 16 November 1958,
Subject: Khrushchev's Theses on the Seven-
Year Soviet Economic Plan (1959-65)
1. Mr. Philip Areeda of the White House Staff telephoned this
morning and asked whether the contents of the subject memorandum, of
which the White House had received copies, could be declassified for
public use. He explained that it was expected that the President
would be queried concerning his reaction to the Soviet Seven-Year
Plan theses and the subject memorandum, which appraises the "theses,"
contains information which would be useful in any statement the
President might care to make. I told Mr. Areeda that I would seek
authorization for such declassification and that I would phone him
back today.
2. After consultation with ERA/RR divisions and branches who
contributed to the subject memorandum, it was concluded that public
use of the substance of the memorandum would be appropriate providing
no attribution to the Agency were to be given. The data contained
in the memorandum come entirely from open sources, and the calcu-
lations behind the estimates included in it could be made by any
competent student of the Soviet economy who had access both to the
theses and to other Soviet public releases. On the other hand, the
statistical tables which were appended to the memorandum included,
in the case of a few figures, some classified information. Moreover,
the tables had been hastily compiled and concluded some non-official
estimates of U.S. production, as well as a few arithmetical errors,
and for these reasons it was considered that the tables should not
be declassified.
3. I telephoned Mr. Areeda this afternoon and informed him
of the foregoing conclusions, having been authorized to do so by
the AD/RR.
cc: AD/RR
OCh/E/RR /2763 (18 November 1958)
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Approved For Release 2000/08/23: CIA-RDP6 ib020028-4