PROVISIONAL PRODUCTION PLANNING FOR THE SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006800050011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2008
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 3, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION C-h-u-T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY R6
INFORMATION REPORT CD
COUNTRY Fist Germany
SUBJECT Provisional Production Planning for the
Second Five-year Plan
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. In early April 1955, the Main Department for Planning, a certral depart-
ment in the East German Ministry for Machine Construction, wa's ordered
by the State Planning Commission to establish new suggestd'or_s for the
planning of production during the second Five-Year Plan period (1956
through 1960). In early January 1955, this department, in cooperation
with the State Planning Commission, worked out a Preliminary plan t,1 Accord-
ing to the January 1955 plan, gross production in 1960 of all enterprises
under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for Machine Construction was to
amount to 134.39 of 1955 gross production. This relatively small pro-
duction increase over a period of five years corresponded to the slow
increase.of production experienced in 1954 and planned for 1955. The
April 1955 order to the planning department, however.. stipulated that
new provlsiona.L plans were to be worked out with higher increases
of gross production. Two new versions of a provisional plan were to
be established:
a. A version in which 1960 gross production was to amount to 150% of
1955 gross.. production. 4
b. A version in which 1960 gross production was to amount to 175% of
1955 gross production.
2. Regarding the version with a 75% increase by 1960 over 1955 gross pro-
duction, the order to the Main Department for Planning spacified that
this project should be worked out taking into consideration the follow-
ing two possibilities: increased production was to be reached either
through a 50% increase of work productivity (Arbeitsproduktivitaet),
or through the supplying of sufficiently high investment funds. It was
specified at the same time that the considered increase o..~ work pro-
ductivity could normally only be reached through an Increase in work , ~,
norms. While this increase' wee ! still a disputed issue,'the order'plainly stated that during the second Five-Year Plan
period an increase in work norms would no longer be tha uwjoct of di-a--
puts.
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.ozrs of provisional planning; were completed, an" present
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,` 1' t~'1 Fors oz. for the second rive-gear Plan period was to be
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dap 1, rrkc3u t of a :Kinistr,y has been ;;celled directly to if:oscor for the
S t IC- ilf'lir of iI,pcrt `.t production launi.n T issties., _''. s believed
t: 3t t~.=?` r (J !'C'L SC is a part of an overall effort on the part of
the i1S: T a;o ;sl:i .e more direct -landership in the overall production
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