'ALLEGATIONS' CONCERNING NIS 14-65

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00904A000100040008-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 17, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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KOI 14,
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17 November 1953
tig INSPECTOR
etionsh Cnneerning IS 14-65
is in :wpm*
office with Teepee
ME 14065. The allege
formed the basis for
document.
rerluest for
n allegations
PO in question
examination
2. A. warbler of thc.13or of atiia1 at1atee, most ex-
pert in the field of the document, as well u sore of our area
specialists have examined the document with great care.
3. Our conclusions concerning the documont and the allega-
tions are as followst
A4 The draft doss corltain wtlat our vlow arc errors
emrhasis, ludg7ont, and presentation.
do not believe that these errors are of a Knd
or a degree to warrant the conclusion V.:nt thn draft con-
tainswi1li distortions.
C. WO believe therefore that iplicstiozs in the
llogationsw memorandum concerning the authors of the
draft cannot be substantiated on the basis of any evidence
contained in the draft itself.
4, Our detailed comment is as follows*
A. The meet substantial and generalised charges of die-
tortion fall under two headiness a) lack of emphasis on
territorial changes "instigated since (World War /I) by the
USSR"; and their major effect on Polish foreign trade and
international finance; and (b) failure to show that Poland's
foreign trade policy is an instrument for furthering the
purposes of this U5. Thee. criticisms are not completely
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easP'
eorrecti
distortio
the paper would be improved by
However, as evidence of intentional
er for the following reasons:
14 Territerialim
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of "enphasis
Koreover, contr
changes are virtual
mentions the impact of territori
trade at least siz times (pp, 2,
241).
c .pletely as to
give an nob satire"
Allegations that
=red, NIS 14-65
henget; on Polish
2, 123, 242 143,
On bulen. Polat1 has benefited econorically from the
territorial changa5 occasioned by World War II.
Despite utderstandable Polish discontent over losses
in the east, this is probably overshadowed by Folish
desire to obtain continued goviet support for terri
tial acquisitions in the west, Thus it eight logically
be reasoned that too such emphasis on postwar terri-
torial changee and tiwit resultant econcelle benefits to
Poland would be a distortion, for this night seem to
some to stress, the gains that Poland has made under
Oameunist rule.
t
01 of s ire, eeon
possible that over-all impresslo
in view of present intelligence estimates
llite relations is that it fails to give
is to Erealiii domination of Idish
other hand, contrary to claims in the
14-65 clearly UIUDOD (p, 154) that
reoognized as baeical4 an "arm of Soviet
etates in the intzoduct1oa (pp. 1-2)
1952"internal and external trade, a* well as
pr tiaally all economia activities, ware under govern.
mental control an the result of a political revolution
engineered by the Miele. Communists with Soviet help."
Moreover, throughout the paper the stringent nature of
Polish internal economic and political controls and
their graving similarity with Soviet forms are made
entirely clear,
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as coma
degree
exercised is
ent informs,-
of Poltheconomic plans
tiide than in the other Satellites
d for by the strategic importance
on the part of the Kremlin., and
that any marked release of
merely stimulate increased pressure- from
anti-Soviet population. 'beaver, it is
le that the potential of Polish opposition.
utious economic planning, compared with
tee, anl thus a lesser reed for revision of
Economic indications of such Soviet
caution can b found in the relatively elem. rate ef
the. large Soviet credits to Poland
0.550,000AM .n faverable terme, mrd the relatively
higher rates- of labor productivity intrease. By impli-
cation it may also indleate that Polish Comrunist economists
(e.g., Hilary Miro, head of the Pellet economic planning
eines- 1945 and Western trained) have had relatively greater
say, than other Satellite leaders in the deternination of
national economic policy.
B. In the *alegetiere" NIS 14-65Ia crittcied for
Polish eta:temente, relative rcertg. figures in showing
Weiss* allecations, and 'zloty* in tend ef ettual dellir
the budeet. These critic-lone end others alee eerit attontien
final product is to be the beet poeeible4 However, the use of such
vitesehrd.quee does not teem to be disproportionate when compared with
other NIS publicatienr, or general intelligence estimates. The use
of such techniques, and the possible inaccuracy and distortion which
may wipes probably reflect more the need for better intelligence
*Wier agreed methods of intelligence: presentation, rather than any
deliberate effort on the part of the writers to distort the Polieb
picture.
C. ItshldaaoberdthattheNlSlispartotasertee
Sone at its shortcomings may thus stem !meta legitimate assumption
on the part or the writers that many major questions, including such
questions as territorial revisions and Soviet-Polish relations, are
covered in other ftectiene.
D. It may also be observed that an att&nt to distort this pub-
lication would seem to be a most improbable field of activity for
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nstitutes O
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the di*tortlon of the rolteh sttat.1on
h this vo1ui would
,n the process of prparatto the
u*tiv process of review wbic wakes it
ous distortions would be discovered
N/S plbalcations would eeem to be
or persons contemplating subversive
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