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Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000172 # CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN 11 January 1961 # DAILY BRIEF ## I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC *USSR: The next congress of the Soviet Communist party, the 22nd, has been set for October by the central committee plenum which opened in Moscow on 10 January. The congress--formally the party's highest forum--was apparently originally scheduled to meet earlier but was postponed in view of the change-over in US administrations and to allow the Soviet leadership to digest the results of its confrontation with the Chinese Communists last November. Announcement of the congress indicates that Khrushchev will speak on the two principal agenda topics and thus will dominate the proceedings. Frol Kozlov, member of the party's presidium and secretariat, is also slated to deliver a key report to the congress, a fact which appears to reinforce substantially the likelihood that he occupies second place in the Kremlin hierarchy. (Page 1) **Communist China:** China realizes the pace of its industrialization program has been "too fast." In the railway industry, for example, development plans have been revised downward "considerably." This information is in line with other indications that the Chinese economy has been having trouble sustaining the pace of development envisaged by the regime since 1958. Agriculture has had its second successive poor year, and industry has been plagued with various problems, complicated by the withdrawal of Soviet technicians in August. Furthermore, the 1960 capital construction plan probably was not fulfilled. (Page 3) i ~~TOP SECRET~~ Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000172

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