SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R000700010098-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 98
• Publication Date: November 9, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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BIWEEKLY REPORT
SINO - SOVIET BLOC
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
EIC-WGR 1/98
9 November 1959
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PREPARED BY THE WORKING GROUP
ON SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
IN UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS
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WARNING
THIS MATERIAL CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECT-
ING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES
WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE LAWS,
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTIONS 793 AND 794, THE TRANSMIS-
SION OR REVELATION OF WHICH IN ANY MANNER TO
AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.
These biweekly reports on "Sino-Soviet Bloc Economic Ac-
tivities in Underdeveloped Areas" are prepared and issued
by a Working Group of the Economic Intelligence Commit-
tee, including representatives of the Departments of State,
the Army, the Navy, th Air Force, Commerce, and Agricul-
ture; the International Cooperation Administration; the
Office of the Secretary of Defense; and the Central Intelli-
gence Agency. Their purpose is to provide up-to-date fac-
tual information on significant developments in the eco-
nomic relations of Sino-Soviet Bloc countries with under-
developed countries of the Free World. The EIC-R-14 series
of reports, under the same title, provide periodic summaries
and analytical interpretations of these developments.
Printed and Disseminated by
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Summa ry of Events
23 October - 5 November 1959
Soviet specialists have completed the design of a coal-dressing
plant of 2-million-ton capacity to be built for the Indian government.
This plant is one of five projects included in the Soviet credit of $126
million offered to India in November 1956.
It is reported that Soviet petroleum equipment now in use in India
is performing poorly and that Soviet drilling and testing techniques
leave much to be desired.
Burma has formally canceled all Soviet projects not actually un-
der construction. Projects abandoned include a theater, a cultural
and sports complex, a permanent agricultural and industrial exhibit,
and a conference hall.
There has been a marked increase in Bloc economic activity in
Ethiopia since Emperor Haile Selassie's visit to the USSR and Czecho-
slovakia in July 1959.
Two Soviet experts will arrive in-Ghana before the end of 1959 to
investigate the possibility of establishing a steel industry in that coun-
try.
Soviet activity in the armed forces of Afghanistan is increasing
sharply. Forty-three Soviet officers have been assigned to the third-
and fourth-year classes of the Afghan lv%litaryAcademy, and it is re-
ported that Soviet officers will take over all instruction in technical
services, armor, and artillery in the Academy. Moreover, 140 Afghan
officers are now attending 3-month courses in various Soviet service
schools.
The USSR has announced that its trade with underdeveloped coun-
tries of the Free World in 1958 amounted to $968 million, an increase
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of 15 percent above the level of 1957 ($843 million). The 15-percent in.-
crease is considerably less than that of any previous year since the be-
ginning of the Soviet economic offensive in underdeveloped areas. Al-
though there are substantial differences between Soviet trade statistics
and trade as reported by Western. sources, the general trends appear
to be similar.
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CONTENTS
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General (Soviet Trade with Underdeveloped Countries
of the Free World) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A. Value and Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
B. Commodity Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
II, South Asia (India) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A. Criticism of Soviet Oil-Drilling Equipment
and Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
B. Completed Soviet Design for Coal-Dressing
Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
III. Southeast Asia (Soviet Construction Projects
in Burma) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
I Middle East and Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
A. Soviet Role in_Afghan Military Training 9
B. Increasing Bloc Activity in Ethiopia . . . . . . . 10
C. Soviet Survey of Iron. Resources in Ghana . . . . 1.0
1. Soviet Trade with Underdeveloped Areas of the Free
World, as Announced by the USSR, 1955-58 3
2. Soviet Trade with Underdeveloped Areas of the Free
World, as Reported by the US Department of
Commerce, 1955-58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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