INSTITUTE FOR MARKET SURVEYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400170009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This is UNEVALUATED Information
CONFIDENTIAL 25X1
COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast)
SUBJECT Institute for Market Surveys
PLACE ACQUIRED
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
.(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
2. In paragraph 2, Byuletent should read Byulleten'.
42==: The Academy of Foreign Trade is also located at 4 Dabushkin
CONFIDENTIAL
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Sees. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 21 OCTOBER 19514
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COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast)
SUBJECT Institute for Market Surveys
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The Institute for Market Surveys (Nauchno-issledovatel'skiy kon"
yunkturnyy institut) was organized sometime before World War II
and from 19+8 on was located in Moscow at 4 Babushkin Pereulok.
The Institute wa
l
s c
osely associated with the Ministry o
Trade
2. The Institute for Market Surveys was responsible for study of the
world's commodity prices, their fluctuation, availability on markets
and similar matters and for supplying this information to the
Ministry of Foreign Trade and All-Union Associations conducting
USSR foreign trade. Results of, the study of various foreign trade
publications dealing with production, trade, prices, and similar
matters were published in a weekly periodical of this organization
entitled Bulletin of Foreign Commercial Information B leten'
inostranno ommerc:.eso n forma s - which was -r r buted
Tree o charge to subscribers. The u e n was not sold publicly
since there were no customers for this type of publication in the
USSR except the various state agencies. BIKI's were also sent to
various Soviet economic organizations abroad such as USIA, TsKK,
trade representatives, etc.
3. A rather large number of employees of the Institute for Market
Surveys were graduates of the Foreign Trade Institute. The Institute
for Market Surveys employed approximately 30 or 40 people, many of
whom had an excellent knowledge of foreign languages.
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