PZPR POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000030002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/06/04: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA004000030002-2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
Ing of Title 13, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an a.nauthorized person 1s prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTRO]L ? U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT PZPR Policy
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
28 April 1954
1. The new economic program in Poland is the outgrowth of official realiza-
tion that the present economic structure in Poland is seriously la-eking
in capability to provide the country with its basic economic needs.
Substantial drops in production, notable in the ni;ricultural field, have
compelled the Party to take radical steps to impro'e overall productivity,,
deficiencies in the su u1 of essentials such as br eadj,
butter, eggs, and meat food shortages to passive
peasant resistance: to collectivization and to increasing government
control over agriculture. The food supply problem is eg r~>vated by in-
creasing exports of food and consumer goods to Coam;lunist China and the
Satellites., especially those whose boundaries are contivuoils to the
West. The Communist policy is to keep the living standard of peripheral
countries as high as possible so that their economic condition compares
favorabJ!y with that prevailing in the neighboring West. Eaat Germany is
the best example of this support policy with Czechoslovakia nett.
T h e food shortage i o -1 ributable to the, Soviet Union' ll
stockpiling effort. officially the Party does not
admit the real causes or the gr=owing s orta~-es in Poland; instead., it crusts
the blame on "enemies of the s trite" and uses the existing state of affairs
to further its political aims, particularly with respect, to collectivi zatiorn5
It speaks eloquently of its desire to elevate the livin=, a .~-ndard of the
workers and intelligentsia without detailed explanation of the reasons
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for its original decline. The topic food shor taago:s s- d its cause is
d.i~ cussed freely in UP circles and among high Party functionaries.
4. The new economic plan is part of the recently instituted
Soviet policy to forego some of its production goals ixn he-: vy industry.
including the field of armaments, for purpose; of bettering the economic
lot of the may''sses. It, will be recalled that soon.. after the Soviet Union
announced price reductions in consumer goods (1.953 ), Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
and Poland followed suit. In. Poland, :he shift in imp ha eis was immediately
eviden4. In the suspension of work in industries considered nonessential.
The Warsaw metro (subway) construction was curtailed so that only a part
is now being completed. this construction is taking
on the aspect of a bomb shelter)*
any radical alteration or adj astment,