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- page four the economic plans of the Fifth Five Year plan are also done primarily with military aims in mind. This is especially true ef the vast railroad expansion programme planned between now and 1955. Strategically the most important way in Asia will be the new Seuth Siberian line between Akmolinsk and Abakhan and tie new line between the Aral and the Caspian Seea Beonomicakiy important will be the new Line between Agryz and Surgut, whien is supp osed to be terminated in the early part of 1954. This line's importance comes from the fact, that this is the area of vast new petrol disceveries, which will be developed in a great scale beginuing early 1953. A vefinery will also be constructed in tie area. An interesting feature is also reported by our observers. While the Faigth Five Year Plan is very outspoken about its tremendous power projects to be built befere 1955, such as tne Kuibyshev Dam, the Molotov Dam on the Kama River and the Mingechaur Dam on “Le Kura, there is absolute silence in tne plan about two vast power= projects, which are nearing compietion + tne dams and power cen— ters on the Kurtu and the Ili Rivers. This snows again the very gecret nature of these two prejects and cenfirms what observers have felt ali along, namely that these are tne power centers frem which the Hydregen Bomb plants are supplied. In a completely different field our ovservers cali eur attention on a person, whe is rising steeply in importance 3 Maxim Saburev, tie President of tre P,anning Commission and hence 1 szg, who was eliminated from his pest in 1949. it is interesting to note that Seburov is an economic technician with little or ne political background except the normal leyalta to whe partye This is the first dime thet officially the Pian is in tnehancs ef a real technician. Saburov, like his colleague ef the Treasury Sverjev is quite a new star on the Horizon, Both men may g0 far end they are persons tc be watched henceforth, Both are supposed te belong to the friends of Malenkov. 24 ,
