IM-132 - SELECTED DATA ASSEMBLED FOR THE HARMON COMMITTEE OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A000300330002-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 4, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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1`111ORr,NDUI`fi To: The Central Intelligence agency.
Subject: PT-132 - Selected Data Assembled for the Harmon
Coli:nittee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1. The Office of Naval Intelligence concurs in general with
subject paper.
2. (WTI recommends, however, that the following additions
and changes be made in the paper, or noted, as appropriate.
aectionll
Paragraph 1 c (3) : In the second para.raph, the
qualifying, words "merely" in the first sentence and
"only" in the third sentence should be omitted, since
they contribute nothing factual and riiay modify unduly.
,_Iection III
Paragraph 3 d: The paragraphs under this subsection
tend to over-estimate the i %portance of the Eastern areas.
While it is the plan of the Soviet anion to develop these
Eastern areas, it has been found in the past that the
development of these areaas has been more uneconomical
than development in the Western areas. Reconstruction
in the '`lest has been easier than ne.;,r construction in the
East. While percent A`;e increases in the :' ast are much
greater than percentage increases in the Wiest, the -seater
resources and production in the west ~~wrill continue to
make the hest of greater L.?portance economically for some
time to come. While the population increases in a few
Eastern cities, as stated in the table, are significant,
it also should, be borne in mind that these populations
are rather small when compared to the population of
sca (4,350,000) and L enin,rad (3,100,000 and Kiev
,
Kharkov, Gorki and Baku, all of which are over 600,000.