WASTE, PLAN FAILURES AND INEFFICENCY IN USSR FARM MACHINE PLANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700150470-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 470
• Publication Date: December 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION COPr IDrvI1 AL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Agricultural machine INFORM4TION 1953
HOW building
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers DATE DIST. A$ Dec 1953
COUNTRY USSR
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow, Tashkent
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 - 19 Aug 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
WASTE, PLA1i FAILURES AND IidEFF7C_ENi:Y_i11 f'B xAFt?1 h1A Rliie Fu1f1TS
INFLATED BUDGET ESTIMATES COVER LOSSES -- Moscow, Pravda, 7 Aug
Many plants in the USSR, includir.. agr1cultura1 machine building plants,
have been using large reserves in their b,:dc,et .a,tlmats to cover up lo.>ea
which .ray be incurred in various pha:;e; of plant operations
In 1951, agricultural machine building rr,t.rnrt_e:> used such reservei. to
cover 191,900,000 rubles' worth of 1o;;es due to r d savings of
59,500,000 rubles of their planne1 produ,:i.ion cost:,
EXfESSIVE USE OF RAW MATigRIAL AT RO.;T E1: ?fi4: E FL'tNT :dr~cow, Trud, 1 Aug 53
The unsatifactory performanc,: tn- prcari fcr3ing shop and the metal
casting shop at the Rostov-on-Don Acst.el.'u..:h i',ant brough? about increased
rejects of products by these shops, Cau=in;: , ._5-e use of raw material5..
Instead of improving, the condition in *het . : iu:?i-, i.> rc,wtrg worse; rejecta
have increased in the first quarter of 1'15 a; _ompared with the first quarter
of 1952. In June 1953, the reject rate has d:ahied in rom?viricen win the
first quarter of 1953.
PRODUCTION OF COTTON HARVESTING bL1^HiPl:S PFL:;rt F Al -. Tshkent, Pravda Vostoka,
7 Aug 53
During the first 6 months of 1.953, the lashkent Tashse'_'mash Plant fulfilled
less than two thirds of its plan for production of cotton harvesting machines.
This failure may adversely affect the plan to mechanize cotton harvesting.
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