THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF SOVIET CLIENT STATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R000701230054-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: February 15, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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15 February 1983 ~~~~
MEMORANDUh1 FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: The Economic Problems of Soviet Client States
This Assessment on The Economic Problems of Soviet Client States
seems to rather understate their problems and the degree to which they
depend on Soviet support. In reading the piece, "Cuba: Domestic
Economic Failures" you don't learn anything until you plow through
a recitation of Cuba's social gains, the lustre of which you do not
find faded until you reach the last paragraph. Even then the conclusion
that the export of specified skills confirms Cuba's reputation for
social and managerial achievements. I think all this is worthy of
analysis but the assessment is entitled, "The Economic Problems of
Soviet Client States".
When I finished reading the whole thing the only number I see
is $1.1 billion per year said to reflect the "slight" overall burden
on the Soviet economy of assistance to Cuba. Yet, I read in 'the
attached memorandum of 26 August 1982 on the cost of Soviet aid to
Communist countries that the annual cost of economic and mil itary
assistance to Cuba in 1980 was over $3 billion and I believe 'the
increased level of military assistance has pushed it closer to $4 billion.
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 Directorate of
Intelligence
The Econonnic Problems
of Soviet Client States (v)
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Secret
D182-10025
April 1981
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