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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000100050073-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: April 7, 1952
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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1u-88 or April 2, 1952 says 9ovlet sywbMtie lubtier oe'odue-
tion will be 197,000 tons for year bs$inning- JIa3y. 1, 1952'.
NIB-40 of Nov 20, 1951 esthetes 1951 p stun. * 172 000
tons. Soviet affairs, OIR Report No 45W.'27 of % Web 11;2.
as s production was between 220,000. tens and 270,000 tens in
1950. Can anything be done t2 reconcile these state tts?
2. CIA paper contains footnote on P. -1, statinthat bd8R
had accumulated surplus of natural rubber of _2560000 tens
25X1C8a nd 1949. Source cited is 25X1C8a
, which in fact says USSR had aoovaulated unceeisuaed
stocks of rubber above normal of nearly 1,50,000 toter, and
that if this is all natural rubber it. would be equivalent
to about two are is rt seguirersnts. Intellipnoe studies
which do not ~rpt not) cite sources correctly can be rather
Srisleading.
3. Intelligence data furnished Araotreag also inadsqute
in other respects and almost useless in aep nsgot. I. ft
better to admit we know little and ha,. d. less about
Soviet rubber - positioat
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