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Mr. R. Helms' briefing notes on Soviet defense spending and economic policy. Miscellaneous. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. TOP SECRET. Issue Date: Nov 28, 1967. Date Declassified: May 26, 1994. Unsanitized. Complete. 14 page(s).



F. The Soviet man in the street is riding high
for the moment.
1. His cash income is high, and he can expect
further increases between now and 1970.
2. He can find an increasing supply of things
like refrigerators and television sets in
the stores.
3. But what he really wants is more meat,
milk, and other quality foods, and less
reliance on bread and potatoes.
4. If the harvests fall off, the food will
not be there, and the extra cash will
just buy more and louder consumer
grumbling.
G. Even in this relatively good year, the Soviet
man-in-the-street has to stand in line for
hours, and then runs into spot shortages,
shoddy production, or sizes that don't quite
fit.
1. There are more current Russian jokes on
consumer problems than on any other subject.
A typical story tells of the visitor who
found nobody home at the apartment of
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Mr. R. Helms' briefing notes on Soviet defense spending and economic policy. Miscellaneous. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. TOP SECRET. Issue Date: Nov 28, 1967. Date Declassified: May 26, 1994. Unsanitized. Complete. 14 page(s). Reproduced in Declassified Documents Reference System. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.


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