COMMENTS ON IRON CURTAIN SUBJECT BY EXPERT ANALYST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R002000090005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 30, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Expert Analyst
Comments on Iron Curtain Subjects 410b
DATE OF INFORMATION (Date or dates, on or between which,
events or conditions described in report existed)
To 30 May 55
National of the United States within the
meaning of the s Laws, Title 18, U. S. C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the tra on or revelation
of which in any manner to an un zed per-
son is prohibited by law.
UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. C Concerning the Soviet industrial dilemmaJ ... productivity is
highest in the new giant enterprise east of 14 the Urals Machine
building now is called the "heart industry.
2. . The picture of industrial prospects is unfavorable. Toile
ice to Krushchev's new super target which called
ring lip serv
rende by the end of this year 1955 for an over-all industrial production
rovided in the
t
p
80 per cent above 1950 instead of the 70 per cen
original plan, the appeal of the technocrats stated implicitly that
this could be achieved only if the excess production of certain high
price industries would more than make up for the relatively slow
progress of the bulk of heavy industry. On the basis of the current
rate of production listed in the appeal (in relation to the known
crude oil and
coal
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e
figures of 1940), the output of pig iron, s
, electric power would have to go up by roughly 14, 5, 7, 19 and . U G 1
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per cent respectively during the remaining eight mon
if the original targets are to be attained.
3. For crude oil and pig iron such an increase would be unprecedented,
to use the polite language of the ECE. For steel and electric power
industrial giants now May 1955] in the last stages of ;construction
starts to operate, percentage figures will rise steeply.:
4 Of interest is the relative immunity to purges of the inner
. nucleus of the technocrats. Thus the new Gosplan is headed by former
Oil Minister Baibakov whose Ministry is particularly delinquent.
Baibakov has been in charge of oil .f..or nearly 15 years. His
successor Mikail Yeyseyenko was Minister of the Oil Industry for the
s until the Ministry in 1951 was once more unified.
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Eastern
Saburov, a First Deputy Premier probably is in charge ofboth planning
agencies even though officially he is only Chairman of the new
State Commission for Current Planning.
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