COMMUNIST ECONOMIC PENETRATION OF WEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00545A000100090056-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 56
• Content Type: REPORT

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ed USSR. has
Soviet grade with underdevel
has increased by over 500 percent since bed:
total Stet trade with West has grown by over 100 percent
over same period.
Soviet fore: economic
e
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d countries of iss't,, and expanded tray
developed countries.
group of repre
State, CIA, ICA and
two
competition
is part of epo
?roe World. In February 1956 w
ales of these bi-ve
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A. policy tool of USSR patent the Soviet Capabilities for
t Capabilities for Trade and Aid
aid formidable.
in USA now greater than that of U.K., France and
i bind. Second only to 11.5.
May bee
over next decade., but present level of trade
output.
*oreover, has extended credit and grant
d program has represented an insignificant burden
to USSR. Doubling of present level of credits and grants
capabilities.
2. $1.4 billion Free World countries since 1954
1. $1.4 billion other Bloc countries,
a. About $1.7 billion economic assistance, $ 1t
USSR all
1) Represent
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m.sion recent years
954, $2.2 billion credits and grants extended by
.4 b.
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bridges to apt
b) Nquipient steel mill Dwdia
c) Oil refinery, Syria
d) Flour mil., Afghanistan
2) Military mare such as
a) Fighter planes,. In
b) Tanks, self propelled artillery, Syr
~e.
On,, Yugoslavia
China) -
convertible currency
million to ? aslavia from . - 1956
b) China grant Egypt early 2957, $5 a
1957, -rly 2,500 tech
half - half Satellites
Bloc sent trace missions all
agreawnts Fr*e World covntr,
force
A - signed trade
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d p ipe lly to him
6 countrS,ee received more
or ate--Yngoelar * E ypt, Syr
neglected others
b. $175 minion credit for aluminm
Terse 00=2triee also h& re ei d
Tame increasing are racy these a
Mtter Of
b. Ambitloi
c. Di f'iemIty
di
of Man-co tee
devejopmect paoms
oh to 'i tioe
plotted Ambitious c evelopme
it eeentieeent
ar desire
or attention most eae
#b
2 billion of
gbwdstan, Ind
'tio ne. rbeting
of Bloc
difficulties
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a. mill, ac ting large coffee surpluses
b. Chile
e. Uru y and Argentina ba turr*d to USM f
--ice forsign exabange
d, Receptivity to Bloc offers
id as economic
attraction of
neeutrali has increased (i,e.,
2. Western defense pact re
ate economic
i ) Iceland, ,
concerned
reaming aorta of
and Pakistan
ltous dovelopmut program
diffic tlee, ixatlation, alum ae of paw;
Problem
iritierce advoca
Attempts
a. To achieve desired rates of gr,
Recent large o,
ipment. Feelers on
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D.
foraign exchange
to iv e:
aountriee
our
2, BOOM MO of .oor aaisjroblem,,
3. Coate.
:e in mrq
ia sed oo atri" Maly to expknd
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