SOVIET AND CHINESE AID TO NORTH VIETNAM 1965 AND 1966

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000100200009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 21, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet and Chinese Aid to North Vie
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Introduction
1. The USSR and Ccs unist China have greatly expanded their
and economic aid to North Vietnam from an esti-
05 million in 1965 to about $68C million in 1966. The
tabulation below gives estimates of Soviet and Chinese military and
economic aid in millions of US dollars.
1965 1966
Communist China
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210 85 360
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50
95
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135
455
150
75
225
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d $15 million of economic aid in 1965 and $50 million of
ecc mic aid in 1966. Only negligible amounts of direct
aid have been supplied by the Eaatern European
2. The USSR supplie{1 slightly less than 80 percent of total
1965 and 1966. Virtually all Soviet military
deliveries have been for North Vietnam's aid defense system in-
cluding surrce-to-air missiles, antiaircraft guns, radar, and
fighter aircraft. Chinese military- deliveries were designed
to build up North Vietrevese ground forces and have in-
eluded small arms and miscellaneous ground forces equipment.
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