Cold Open. This is a declassified United States intelligence cable concerning Taiwanese intelligence on China, dated August twelfth, nineteen sixty‑seven. The document is notable because it records a Taiwanese defense minister’s request that the United States consider an advance announcement of an upcoming Chinese nuclear test, and it reflects Cold War concerns about the psychological impact of such tests. Provenance. The cable was released to the public by The Black Vault, the online repository of declassified government records. The full text is available at the Black Vault URL archive dot org slash download slash us‑china‑intel‑CI01823 slash CI01823_djvu.txt. No FOIA case number is listed in the release notes, and the declassification authority is indicated on the document itself as “Declassified March eleventh, nineteen‑eighty‑nine.” The Document. The cable reads as follows. DEF fl‑) CHIE! —e of ~_— TELEGRAM —SECRET‑ PAGE @3 TAIPEL @938: {118432 ¢ AETMAE ENT SY TEMA ATIC REVIE EW A

COLD OPEN. This episode presents a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence cable dated August sixteenth, nineteen sixty‑seven. The cable records Defense Minister Chiang’s instructions to prepare plans for infiltrating guerrilla teams into the China mainland, and it is notable because it reveals the strategic considerations of the Republic of China government during a period of heightened cross‑strait tension. The source is listed on the Black Vault website. PROVENANCE. The document was released to the public through the Black Vault archive, which hosts a scanned copy of the original cable. The entry is available at archive dot org under the file name CI01824, and the same text is provided in a downloadable PDF at the same address. No additional classification markings appear beyond the original header, and the release was made without a specific FOIA case number. THE DOCUMENT. Routine number five zero three thirty, Central Intelligence Agency, intelligence information cab

This episode presents a declassified Central Intelligence Agency memorandum that records a meeting between Mr. Bundy and Mr. Colby on August seventeenth, nineteen sixty‑seven. The document is notable because it contains contemporaneous assessments of Chinese strategic capabilities and the mood of the Republic of China leadership during a critical period of the Vietnam conflict. The memorandum was released to the public through The Black Vault website. The digital file was uploaded without a formal Freedom of Information Act case number, and the release date is listed as the date of upload. The declassification authority is noted as the Central Intelligence Agency, with the material marked as Secret, Eyes Only. The memorandum opens with a technical assessment of Chinese missile development: “...we will almost certainly detect extended range firings once they begin, and monitoring of these tests will probably provide about one year’s advance warning of IOC. We have no basis at this time

This is a declassified United States intelligence summary dated August twenty‑third, nineteen sixty‑seven, concerning the dispersion of military hardware and the unity of the People’s Liberation Army. The analysis was prepared by the Office of Strategic Research, Department of State, and it offers a contemporary assessment of China’s regional interdependence in military production and supply. The memorandum was released to the public on May fifth, two thousand four, under the authority of the original classification authority and marked “Approved for Release” on that date. The document appears in the public archive hosted by The Black Vault and is available through the archive.org entry for the file identified as CI01826. The release was made pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, and the declassification notice is included within the text of the memorandum itself. The memorandum reads as follows: “Twenty‑first August, nineteen sixty‑seven. Memorandum for: Director, Office o

This episode presents a declassified United States Navy memorandum dated August twenty‑six, nineteen‑sixty‑seven. The memorandum was prepared for the President and details the shoot‑down of three Navy A‑6A attack aircraft over the People’s Republic of China. The document is notable because it contains the first unclassified account of the incident that was offered for possible press release. The memorandum was released to the public through The Black Vault, the online repository that publishes government documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests. The file is available in the Black Vault’s digital collection under the identifier CI01827, with the full text hosted at archive.org. The declassification authority is the United States Department of Defense, which authorized public dissemination of the unclassified portion of the report. MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT During the meeting Thursday evening, you asked for a more complete account of what happened on Monday when two

The document you are hearing is a Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report titled “The Sino‑Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev’s Fall, Part One.” It was prepared in September 1967 and is notable because it offers a contemporaneous CIA analysis of the evolving rivalry between the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties and its impact on the global communist movement. This report was approved for release in May 2007. The declassification was authorized by the Director of Central Intelligence under the authority of Executive Order 12958, as part of the agency’s ongoing effort to make historical intelligence products publicly accessible. The full text is available through the Black Vault archive at the URL https://archive.org/download/us-china-intel-CI01828/CI01828_djvu.txt. The report begins as follows: “Approved for release date: May 2007. Tor Secret – Directorate of Intelligence. Intelligence Report – ‘The Sino‑Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Mov

The CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence produced an intelligence report titled “The Sino‑Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev’s Fall, Part Two,” dated September 1967. It is notable because it offers a detailed internal assessment of the evolving relationship between the Soviet Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party during a critical period of the Cold War. The document was declassified and released to the public in May 2007. It was posted on The Black Vault website, which hosts the full text of the report. The declassification authority was the CIA’s Director of Central Intelligence, and the release was made under the agency’s standard declassification procedures for historical intelligence records. Approved for release, date: May 2007. Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency. Intelligence Report – Top‑Secret, code word excised. The report begins: “This working paper of the Directorate of Intelligence Research Staff examines in detail

This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report on the Sino‑Soviet struggle within the world Communist movement, covering the period from the fall of Khrushchev in October 1964 through May 1967. The document was released in May 2007 and is catalogued in the public archives of the Central Intelligence Agency, accessible through the Black Vault collection. The record was made public through a Freedom of Information Act request. The declassification authority was the Director of Central Intelligence, and the release date is listed as May 2007. The full text is available at documents2.theblackvault.com under the identifier CI01830. Approved for release. Date: May 2007. Directorate of Intelligence. Intelligence Report. The Sino‑Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev’s Fall (Part 3). Reference Title: ESAU XXXVI. Top Secret. TS No. 190151/67B. Warning: This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States. The w

This is a declassified United States intelligence record titled “Resume of Mission C287C,” a memorandum for record dated September twelfth, nineteen sixty‑seven. The document details a round‑robin reconnaissance flight over the People’s Republic of China and records observed air‑defense activity. It is hosted on the public archive at archive.org and was released through The Black Vault. The memorandum was made public on June thirteenth, two thousand two, after a Freedom of Information Act request was processed under declassification authority IDEA 0359‑67. The release is listed in the Black Vault’s collection of United States intelligence on China, catalog identifier CI01831. No additional redactions were applied beyond those already present in the original file. Resume of Mission C287C Memorandum for the Record Subject: Resume of Mission C287C General: Mission C287C was alerted on twenty‑nine August nineteen sixty‑seven and was flown on thirty‑thirty‑first August as a round‑robin miss

US Intelligence on China and North Vietnam's Capabilities to Track OXCART Missions. This is a declassified CIA record, released through The Black Vault. The document is a Memorandum to the United States Intelligence Board, dated September 22, 1967. The Memorandum was released under the Freedom of Information Act, with no specific case number provided. It was declassified by the CIA on an unspecified date. The document is a Memorandum from the United States Intelligence Board, addressed to the United States Intelligence Board. It is marked as Special Limited Distribution and is 1 page in length. The Memorandum states that General Carter reported to the Board on the subject of increased Chinese Communist and North Vietnamese capabilities to track OXCART missions. According to the Memorandum, the Chinese Communist Air Surveillance Facilities have continued to improve their ability to track OXCART missions over North Vietnam since the program began on May 31, 1967. On the last mission of S