SINO-SOVIET BLOC AID PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01048A000100020008-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 25, 1956
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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President's Citizen Advisors on
The mutual security Program
MET BLOC AID PROGRAM
A.
t directed Bloc program for expanding economic
nto high gear i
pansion advanta.
odu+
aped Free World countries
us because Bl
a. eeds additional raw seater
short-
production and reserves (bauxite,
copper, textile fibers, rubber, diamonds).
Can user additional agricultural products which
fable an export surpluses in many under-
loped countries.
e Bloc developing need for export markets for ex-
tiding production of industrial goods in order to pay
riled imports.
ra-Bloc and Bloc-Free World
,r $2.7 billion, of which almost $1
for military aid and about $1.7 billion for
o projects. (Annual barter deals; military
t for goods or cash, etc. not included.)
mutual security aid, in fl 55 and
ich $2.3 billion
billion for economic pur?pO8
r issson,
d $5.5 b
aid and $3.
S. Intra-BIOC loans since early 1965 r
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n $1.4 billion
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A. tr USSR,
illion
military,
North Vie-
million
an+c is , $100 mi
$100
;d, economic, $25 million
economic, $25 million
to -rth Ti*tns* economic , $325 million
economic, $6 million
to FroI
gin. (chart)
combin
ince
1955
than $1.2
co, $564 million (includes 100,000-
military, $250 million; economic
ceramic plant)
.tart,
eludes airports and rose
nomic $132
economic, $124 million (includes. I million
Sol plant at ilai)
c, $112 million (includes sui
c, possibli
military. $35
as and gran.
eland,
ion, and
Cambod
,A, Argentina,
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50 million
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ical assistance provided by Bloc to 15
a untri.es. Notable ox _. les;
Natural resource survey - Burma
b. dbuilding and airfield con structiou Afghanistan
-de vi'
ors - Egypt
7.
bllio
4 cou
planning - India
aid
ration pro.
underdeveloped
because the
cent increase over 1955.
trade fa:
roving attr
continuity in
ow of development capital
adonesia are examples of countries
have accepted long-term aid from the ' U8 h assuring
floe of c
.scan be revpted" at "every moment.",
22 under
teed to 16 in
statement last week highlights doubts as
ness of U8 ^id which to "li i.ted by time"
rceveloped coon
in 1956
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*0 l o a d . r s awdueed
Ind to be snt
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industrial pro
y is grow
border on
C4
ban those o
s. erdeveloped cou
ve growth rates of India and
vs-year p
bl
Du
ease twice as fast as
China's total natio
ict.ion
derdeveloped
All
sand five-year plans
75
kpi4l)
at three times
ion
a during its first five-year plan
the next five years China's industrial growth
be twice that of India.
Chinese rates
*&10
ve ;recent y
7.
while India has been ahead in
y of China has
foodgrains. {
ad fires-y
for
duction of such corn
cotton
India plane a growth
China.,
d's second industrial power (machine tool
production exceeds US's).
to
Ch
f Soviet Union and re
d r;
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5 billion of
eb:
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cold and
y equipment
traded to
World ivArmts-ed
if I
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while
-1d
75 sill ion (da.st c non-monetary
product., .
?d countries
to grease
kg*.
ad a
existin
i1
and grants to
of I pare*
sloped countr
*trial
k capital and trained per
di
to obtain sufficient Cap.,
Fr" World a sal
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co lack s
hats
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stable surpluses.
taking such surplui
Burmese
tal.
etch:
? : Egyptian
for development
for combatting Communist subversion
4-d is helping to sere
various underde
to
ive to the underdeveloped countries because
support police
Ed countries.
character of much of the Bloc progr
inuity in flow of
plans.
is essential in their
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since issuance of first edit in
"40
-m 12 percent of Soviet loans within
dual loans, all for econ .c purposes, have
tI goods for economic
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ndustrial and consumer imports.
td.
$28 million leaned in September 1956 to
foodstuffs and raw
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this total is as fo iows s
A
b#
~A .w 6, pi
1955,
c loan $190
are in joint at
5
a,, granted In four 1
year from 1953, were provided
- to rice chronic Indebtedness to Wes`
and
-d con r
big we a 5m
n4
As in the ca of
art
to of this types, it will act only as pal-
ale and inefficiency Caused
availab
of fa and low
on costs and makes ex--
tivo,
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