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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T01146A000400260001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 20
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 1, 1951
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1 October 1951
CIA No. 49362
Copy No.
l43
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This summary of significant reports has been prepared primarily
for the internal use of the Office of Current Intelligence. It does
not represent a complete coverage of all current reports in CIA
or in the Office of Current Intelligence. Comments represent the
immediate views of the Office of Current Intelligence.
TOP SECRET
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SECTION 1 (SOVIET)
~ ? Lack of re i.onal self ~suf'f"icien oves?taxes Soviet railroads . ~,
recent article in-the Soviet Governor?nt magazine P anovoye Khozya,istovo
(planned Economy), revealed that the-Soviet Union's railroad transport
system is still overtaxed by long haulage and irrational cross-shipments,
In addition to expensive long hauls, there have been excessive loads re-
sulting from shippers? reluctance to use river transport, and from dis-
proportions in the development of mayor areas -- such a.s in the Donets
Basin. where rolling mill capacity exceeds local steel production, This
condition, the article a$serted, exists :r..n spite of extensive past-war
dispersal of manufacturing plants and mines-which has reduced or elimi-
Hated many long hauls, esp3cially in the case of coal, However, the
magazine indicated that much mnra na~rl~ ~-~, ~~ 'one in the field of oil
'CS11O !1liT] f!'t" 9 Ave
Comment: The press report appears to give a x?easonably oorxeot
picture of the present Soviet railroad transport situations
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TAP SECRET
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S~,e~ond full meeting of 1fPorld Peace Caunoil to be held in Vienna:
Jean ~.~1tte, Secretary General
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