Estimates of Military Expenditures of the Eastern European Communist Countries in 1966

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Estimated military expenditures in the Eastern European
Est countries in 1966, valued in domestic currencies, range
from 3 percent to 5-1 percent of Gross National Product (GNP), as
shoxm in the following table:
last European Communist Countries: Estimated
Defense Expenditures and MP, 1966
gas=
Unit of Defense Defense Expenditures
c9M ditures M: a Shs.re of CHIP
Bulgaria billion lers 0.28 8.0
Czech-
oslovakia billion crowns 11.6 207.5
East Ger-
any
Hungary
Poland
pia
billion 20 4.8 109.6
billion forints 8.9 208.9
billion zlotys 33.9 686
billion lei 6.1 145
2. The more advanced countries tend to spend a larger share
of their tiP on defense. Czechoslovakia and Poland have the lar-
gest defense industries in Eastern Europe; their relatively large
wqxaditurse probably reflect the high costs of the production
of military hardware in Eastern Europe.
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