(RUSSIA)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190047-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: December 20, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

1S-17-AT
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190047-7
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL DECEMBER 20, 1960
UPI-'].89
(RUSSIA)
U.S. AUTHORITIES TODAY VIEWED THE NEW SOVIET BUDGET BLUEPRINT AS COMPLETELY
MISLEADING BUT A KEY INTELLIGENCE EXPERT PREDICTED THE RUSSIAN STATE-DOMINATED
ECONOMY CAN FILL THE INEUSTRIAL GOALS THAT HAVE BEEN SET BY THE KREMLIN.
BOTH ECONOMIC AND DEFENSE OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON TOOK ISSUE WITH THE SOVIET
'CLAIM THAT ONLY 11.9 PER CENT OF THE KREMLIN BUDGET WILL GO FOR MILITARY PURPOSES '
WHILE THE UNITED STATES IS DEVOTING 70 PER CENT OF ITS GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON DEFENSE
OUTLAYS.
THE GOVERNMENT BUDGETS OF THE TWO COUNTRIES ARE NOT COMPARABLE, THE OFFICIALS
STRESSED. BECAUSE RUSSIA IS .A TOTAL STATE ECONOMY, TO COMPARE THE RED BUDGET TO THAT
OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS -ACE ECONOMY IS LIKE COMPARING APPLES AND ORANGES, THEY
SAID.
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NED THAT THE sovrET ART AND ECONOMIC AMBITIO -MUST NOT BE
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INA SPEECH AT FORT WORTH, TEX.,-CABELL SAID RUSSIA WILL "CONTINUE TO GROW
AT A RATE WHICH PRESENTS THE FREE WORLD WITH ?A SERIOUS :THREAT AND CHALLENGE."
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HE SAIDTHAT FREE WORLD INTELLIGENCE 'EXPERTS BELTEVE RUSSIA WILL MEET THE
'INDUSTRIAL GOALS TBE KREMLIN HAS IMPOSED "AND WILL NOT BE GREATLY HAMPERED BY THE
DOMESTIC PRESSURES FOR MORE CONSUMER GOODS."
HIS ADVANCE TEXT WAS DISTRIBUTED BEFORE RUSSIA ANNOUNCED ITS PRELIMINARY 1961
BUDGET TODAY. IT CALLED FOR REDUCED MILITARY EXPENDITURES AND EVEN GREATER HEAVY
INDUSTIAL PRODUCTION.
CABELL NOTED THAT BECAUSE OF "STRICT STATE CONTROL" RUSSIA CAN "SWITCH ON A
MOMENT'S NOTICKTO FORCEDDRAFT PROGRAMS AS THE SOVIET, LEADERS SO DECIDE." WESTERN
OFFICIALS HAVE ALSO WARNED THAT RUSSIA COULD CONTINUE MILITARY PRODUCTION_UNDER THE
GUISE OF "HEAVY INDUSTRY."
Th 6 CIA OFFICIAL SAID THAT IF THE UNITED STATES DISPLAYS MILITARY WEAKNESS AND
IF SOVIET LEADERS BELIEVE THEY COULD ATTACK WITHOUT SUFFERING IRREPARARTA DAMAGE,
"THEN THEY WILL STRIKE."
BUT' HE SAID THE "BEST INTELLIGENCE JUDGMENT" IS THAT RUSSIA FORESEES A PERIOD
OF ATOMIC "MUTUAL DETERRENCE" AND.WILL ATTEMPT TO FURTHER ITS INTERESTS BY "PEACEFUL
COEXISTENCE."
CAEELL SAID THAT IN SUCH A PERIOD, RUSSIA' CAN BE EXPECTED TO USE ITS"NONAILITARY
ARSENAL" OF DIPLOMACY, TRADE, FONEIGN AID AAM CULTURAL MISSIONS.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190047-7_A