LETTER TO MR. WILLIAM COLBY, DIRECTOR FROM WALTER J. RAYMOND

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• Publication Date: April 30, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/CRS
Harry,
Mr. Proctor would like you to draft a
response for him to the attached request from
Walter Raymond.
Please draft something along the lines of
the attached 6 May response to
listing the publications of possible interest
to Raymond which are available in DOCEX.
Thanks,
FORM
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7 May 75
(DATE)
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P. 0. BOX 466 CAPITOL STATION
RICHMOND, V VIRGINIA 23204
April 30, 1975
Mr. William Colby, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
McLean, Virginia
Dear Mr. Colby:
According to recent press accounts--see enclosure--you have
ordered declassification of some research findings partainin to
Soviet economic power, and made them available for unrestricted
dissemination. We would like to acquire some of these materials
and others that are related to the broad topic of the expansion
oC communism and decline of free? democratic states and societies.
Thorugh our newly-formed Institute, we shall utilize these
materials--quoting sources only when expressely permitted to do
so--for research purposes which in turn shall be broadly dissemi-
nated to teachers of government and history in schools and col-
leges throughout the United States and abroad, as well as among
persons who are interested in knowing the facts.
I thank you kindly, Sir, for your time and interest and wish
you success in your difficult tasks,
Cordially yours,
Walter J. Raymond
President
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WASHINGTON -- A new U.S.S.R. will continue to draw
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arge volume of western
te1fl , ac ?gea y.b .ccncIud- credit already extended._
ed that t 4 it ? ,ion thanks
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t o13an er t r wee. s
p i th export earnings rising
can c pay for a much large; rapdly, Moscow will have little
c lard?
volume of imports from the need to solicit western credits
West without having to rely on in order- to increase imports
credit. substantially during 1975-80.
The. study `his' _? been But as long as western govern.
declassified and is available ments continue to offer Iong-
frorii the Lior oI C~ ecs. term credits at interest rates
ry -- - belovr the expected world lan
j dpi s resell term inflation rates, Moscow
directly to the e question of
whether the comfortable posi- will probably opt for credits, at
tion of the Soviet balance of thesametime reducing exports
payments will rrake less ire- of gold and/or goods wi'osc real,
portant, from the point of view worth is expected to increase
of U.S. exporters, the current over time."
ban on extension of credit to the What the study terms "hard
Soviet Union by the Export- currency imports" by the
Import Bank, imposed by Soviet Union have risen
Congress last year. dramatically since 1967. From
S-Year scope 41.6 billion in that year they j
But it indicates that if the reached S6.6 billion in 1973 and
*Soviets want someth inp from an estimated $8.6 billion in 1974,
this country badly enough, they when agricultural Imports
will have no trouble payi,ig for. vrere less than the year before.
it in the next five or six years. Thanks to a sharp rise in the
The study concludes,.. Soviet Union's export prices,
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Western medium and ln
og. the study said, "in 1974 the
term credits have been an im- U.S.S.R.'s balance of trade
portant factor in the growth of, - may have been in surplus by
Soviet imports from the West. S;C0rnillionto$lbillion,invivid
They almost certainly will be contrast with the 11.7 billion
less of a factor over the next deficit in 1973 and the practical-
ly uninterrupted string of
deficits since 1960.""
The outlook for Soviet ex-
ports to the west in the years to
1980, the study said, is such that
Soviet "import capacity" will
rise by asmuch as 30p,ercent a
year. It added that"the Soviet.
economy will. riot be, able to
assimilate imports at this
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