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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 -8- TOP SECRET TOP SECRET COPY LBJ LIBRARY
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.
Document Number: CK3100063408
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