NEW SOVIET PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000900020004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 1, 1957
• Content Type: BRIEF

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1 October 1937
leavening troubles of the last year have finally resulted
in *cropping of the current (1955-60) Sixth Five Year Plan.
A. d* 25 Depte er, decree of party and government instructed
July 1959.
Announcement reaffirms all Khrushchev's present economic
policies, claims Sixth Plan use being successfully carried out,
attributes decision to writes new plan to discovery of new
portunlties for expansion. (This is a dodge : the "new
opportunities it cites were all covered in the old plan.)
A. ha
leaning Commission to draft a now seven-year
ouncement has all the flavor of 8hrushchev's bra4gadocio
e in trying to avoid getting into a political box.
and has promised his political following a continued
calved Soviet people a greatly improved standard of
drive to catch up with the West in per capita industrial
production, Those two goals conflict.
et planners have been on the hook---trying to stretch
sources for enough to do everything at once,
has been that the extremely ambitious Sixth Flan
has gotten into real trouble,
cane to the surface last December when Ss.barav
laced as chief planner by Pervukhin. Also a review
of the Sixth Five-Year Plan was ordered, to
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y PervWchia could do no better, for he in turn
waa replaced by 1. t.
der appeared.
twin in Kay, and the revised plan
w, the now announcement contains no
Co., are thus face to face with the as
is planners may solve the pro
Tors-they haven't got enough resources to carry out all of
hrushchev'
er" schemes.
A. Although the Soviets apparently do not
old plan or give up any of their pr*
as their pm-
policy. KkW. in
grate, somthi
on paper, cospotition
,oritiea in likely to become sharper and we can hxpe
s either in policy or in personnel, or both.
ver, by leapfrogging the plan and reorganizing indt
hrushchev has fussed the issue enough to p
d having to adult in public that the Sixth plan goals war
e at least postponed somewhat t
when t
reckoning"
Its of his policies will be judged against
s he has rest.
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