SOVIET ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00545A000100100025-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 24, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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Ai The
in
are of its exi
tiof 1A the
tion to sego only the us 1s larger.
B. the 10 yew before 1957, the U a&iove4 an economic
to
lamed to average be
rate of about thre
`ter the US.
Lc ex ansion of
D. Thus, the USSR will increasingly be in a *alt on to challenge
:e US in forei economic affairs. Consequently,
Soviet ecoaomi
the periphery of world attention to t
Volume of tralie generated ann a ' by Sovi
rapidly.
rate of $4..5 bill
voles of trade
In co:
ant prices, exports 1
increasing
lees than doubled cur
trial West, hh
,e that of the US ff the same
e seven years ex .i in 1965
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nation, USSR mm ram sixth in vor
18.
Percent of w 1 t
w# one scent in
of Soviet trade moat be.it`ec3.
of SR trade is with S:-met W
1957 o 4y o
rk-a:
e bpi do ass
,s; have been: oona atexzt about
2,3 Percent of Soviet.
? ttjtattve ;zrease in Soviet, exports by 1965 may
tbaA Soviet tr
West one 4 `ouz of tot
ee Worms
;;ve. gorse
1.9 b you) .estates contribution to j
derived from impo
Plea eve
use as $mfttypes and for a ;es t n domestic
areas.
about Sost prior;
viet interest (?
(3)
eat
cZen1
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kets.
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Of Lem pieoea Of
the f WA of pet ?d
key industry.. 'we mV tak4
ted that the Vii .
'be
bet
eAt
k9J
rest, "the Vie'
opportmity of ,, ek.,,,
ld be
eria , fuels and se ;
asbeetoe and t
should become c
Of
costs of and
thea re on he
its of 3A
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Suwwn
` to pJz try Into mAjor wwostern ma ke
sales in Z957?58 are oases
set
A. Wv et true with ua ; e1 e : c
tr
be
Of wbm a
2- 5 b;
of lcs1
7r*cc
wte'
deve-At of
extensions of
countries
raa;er
ton cite *ad g'
,t assist,
tzt?ee a tang into accoa'
it possible as
are o
E et
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hen. tug
e ,t $2. billion, by 196
to &Out
overall
iteml aYai ob .it ee eater than at the p e
stake Vm"
I by 1965
The motives of went Soviet forcian eo
my be etas simply!
IWO 'World
rt of we]
ee
t her tQugh econ tic bI
Bate
he estic mppeal to Cammismj, an. Increasing
ate abeo tjo : into the .: d t
e.
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