Global Economic and Technological Change

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Excerpt from Global Economic and Technological Change: Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and China, Vol. 2: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Technology and National Security of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, June 8 and July 27, 1992Senator Bingaman. The Subcommittee hearing will come to order.The hearing marks an historical watershed in several respects.Today, we re receiving the last reports of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency on the Soviet Union, and their first on Russia and the other republics of the former Soviet Union.As everyone is aware, the Soviet Union was dissolved as a political entity in December of last year and the republics that made up the USSR reformed themselves as independent, sovereign republics. The reports that we receive today will review economic performance and defense spending and related activities in 1991, which was the last year of the USSR's existence.The intelligence agencies will also report on what has occurred in the republics thus far in 1992, the first year of their existence since the breakup of the Soviet Union.As I understand what's been delivered to us now, we have a CIA report on the former Soviet Union. We have a CIA report on Eastern Europe. And we have a CIA report on Moscow's defense spending cuts accelerate. And then we also have a statement by the Defense Intelligence Agency that covers that whole range of issues, as I understand it.In addition to having this broad range of issues reported on today, this hearing will be done in open public session, which is a circumstance that was not possible during the long period of the Cold War.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.