SOVIET FORCED LABOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001200120007-3
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2007/06/05: CIA-RDP83M00914R001200~
The Director of Central Intelligence
3 September 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Robert McFarlane
Deputy Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
SUBJECT: Soviet Forced Labor
Pursuant to our discussion, here is information
we have on Soviet forced labor for possible use in the
President's Labor Day speech.
Seems to me the points that might be used are:
1. More than four million Soviet citizens
are now serving sentences at forced labor,
1.5% of the population. That would amount
to a considerably larger portion of their
work force. That's about 3% of the Soviet
work force.
work hazardous or unhealth
2. There seems little doubt that they are
employed wherever labor shortages exist,
i.e., where the location is remote, amenities
lacking, the environment hostile, or the
William J. Casey