COMMENTS ON SPECIAL PAPER CONCERNING TRENDS IN SOVIET GOLD RESERVES FROM WORLD WAR 1 THROUGH 1963

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71T00730R000600090132-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 132
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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a1 paper oon rxi trends in Soviet Sold raserves iu6
orld War I t -ug 1963 provides a very helpful fraese o
reterenoe for rtber comparison of owdxa+,*
wW of 1963
Let gold rev ervec. at
The paper rev ,s that a large meets a of ag,
of the fasces affoc
S8L In particular your estinettee of the total amount of gold prs ed
f Wk War I through 1963 appear to agree closely with our w o erti .tae.
At saw time, your detailed ra=xU also heap to identd r tt M w AO
of opinion .4st. These
bring pare raphs
2. %a And, by thq In
t 'vary
discuued in the
Our estimate of .d at the disposition of the new Soiriet
t in 1920 is epproXiMte y 0 million higher than that given
agree with your
the gold reserves of woe
held by the Oetral. lot as of So ar 1917 were
substantially reduced by the capture of gold- from t s Soviets In s.aa
and by payments made to the German government in saco:e oe with the
rms of the Peace of Brest. On the ci
of Siberia by the ovieta resulted In a re
reser es. In addition, the seizure of n3.kee gold reserves
)* scow at the ad of World War I increased Soviet geld
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any cam we believe the" is no
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that tho , on aaooant for
s of total suld production in 1956 in to raw
for this ammVUmp nowly that
probnby man valid in the early years of
but is open to question with regard to 1956.
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