This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record titled Report on alleged Republic of China maritime incursion in Fukien, February ten, nineteen sixty‑eight. It is notable because it records a CIA assessment of a story that appeared in the Central News Agency describing a GRC operation during the Lunar New Year holiday. The document was released to the public through The Black Vault, uploaded from the CIA’s Freedom of Information Act reading room. It was declassified by the CIA’s Office of Information Management in accordance with Executive Order one‑three‑five‑two‑six. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY. SECRET. NOFORN. FROM: American Embassy Taipei. DATE: February ten, nineteen sixty‑eight. SUBJECT: GRC concocts story on New Year’s maritime incursion in Fukien. REF: Taipei 2015. Almost all dailies on January twenty‑nine gave minor coverage to a Central News Agency story that reported a number of GRC frogmen from the Kinmen Defense Command, using five motorboats, landed briefly on the Fuk

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Cold Open: This is a declassified memorandum from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dated February 17, 1968, regarding Chinese Communist airspace violations. The document, CM-3024-68, is a Top Secret report that details incidents of airspace violations by Chinese Communist forces during the last year. The report is part of a larger collection of declassified US Intelligence on China, released through The Black Vault. Provenance: The document was declassified under Executive Order 12356 and released through The Black Vault, a non-profit organization dedicated to declassifying government records. The document is part of a collection of records related to US Intelligence on China, cataloged as CI01854. The Document: Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, Subject: Chinese Communist Airspace Violations 1. Reference is made to a White House memorandum, dated 14 February 1968. This memorandum informs you of the results of the investigation of Chinese Communist airspace violations during the last y

This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency memorandum of conversation between United States Ambassador Walter P. McConaughy and Chiang Ching‑kuo, recorded on twelve February nineteen sixty‑eight. The record is notable because it captures high‑level diplomatic dialogue on the situation in Tibet, the province of Kwangtung, and broader U.S. policy considerations during the Cultural Revolution. The document is hosted by The Black Vault, a public archive of declassified government records. The memorandum was released to the public through The Black Vault’s online collection. The release date is listed as early twenty‑first century, and the declassification authority is the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of History. The material is presented in its original form, without editorial alteration, as part of the agency’s effort to make historical records accessible. The document reads as follows. “1. Chiang Ching‑kuo said the situation in Tibet caused him particular concern. He said

This episode presents a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence note on Kuomintang forces operating in Thailand, dated February twenty‑ninth, nineteen sixty‑eight. The document is notable because it details a shift in Thai and Burmese policy toward the KMT irregulars, who had long been regarded as a disruptive presence on the Burma‑Thailand‑Laos border. The note was released to the public through The Black Vault, a repository of government records, and is available online at archive dot org under the identifier CI01856. The release date is listed as the date of upload, and the declassification authority is the Central Intelligence Agency, which marked the material “Secret/No Foreign Dissemination.” The document reads as follows. Secret, No Foreign Dissemination. Department of State, Director of Intelligence and Research, file number one‑six‑two, February twenty‑ninth, nineteen sixty‑eight. To: The Secretary. Through: S/S ath. From: INR – Thomas L. Hughes, F‑L. Subject: KM

Air Warning Radar Facilities, Southwest China – a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record dated circa March nineteen sixty‑eight. It appears in the public archive of The Black Vault, a repository for government documents. This brief is notable for identifying four radar installations and a cross‑legs radar site in the Kun‑ming air defense district. The document was released to the public through The Black Vault website. The file was uploaded as part of the agency’s ongoing declassification effort, with the citation indicating a Central Intelligence Agency – Research and Development Project number and a National Photographic Interpretation Center attachment. No specific Freedom of Information Act case number is listed; the release is attributed to the standard declassification authority of the Central Intelligence Agency. The record reads: “RAN (UE Approved For Release) – EGRET: CIA‑RDP‑79‑00849‑A001‑200‑050‑004‑2. (c) NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER ATTACHMENT TO L‑

Cold Open: We're declassifying a CIA report from March 1968, detailing a probable SIGINT facility in China, codenamed Cheng-Yang. This document was released through The Black Vault and is now available on the CIA's reading room. The report is a photographic intelligence report, compiled by the National Photographic Interpretation Center. Provenance: This document was declassified through the CIA's reading room, with a declassification authority of CIA-RDP78T04759A008404010028-5. The document was approved for release by NIMA/DOD. The document is part of the ACIC series, with a scale of 1:200,000. The Document: EET hy, Oo CHENG-YANG PROBABLE SIGINT FACILITY CHINA copy... * 3 PAGES 25X1 GROUP 1 EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC DOWN GRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION Declass Review by NIMA/DOD Approved For release : CIA-RDP78T04759A008404010028-5 - . 25X1 Approved For Release RDP78T04759A00B400010028-5,-— 7 3¢g— 25X11 NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER GEO COORDS FUNCTION 36-20~30N_120~22-008 WA

This is a declassified United States intelligence memorandum from the Central Intelligence Agency, dated March twenty‑fifth, nineteen sixty‑eight, assessing the Soviet military buildup along the Chinese border. It is notable because it offers a contemporaneous view of Soviet strategic intentions during a period of heightened Sino‑Soviet tension. The memorandum was released to the public through The Black Vault, hosted on archive.org under the entry identified as CI01859. The release date corresponds to the posting of the document on the archive, and the declassification authority is recorded as the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Information Management. The document reads as follows. “[four lines redacted under exemption B1] The Soviet forces stationed near the Chinese border were estimated at approximately one hundred and fifty thousand men, including KGB border guard detachments and regular army units. The number of border incidents reported in nineteen sixty‑five was five po

Resume of Mission C058C – CIA Memorandum for the Record, March twenty‑ninth, nineteen sixty‑eight. This declassified record details an aerial reconnaissance sortie over the People’s Republic of China, North Vietnam and Laos, including target coverage, weather conditions, air‑defense encounters, and photographic results. The source is listed on The Black Vault, archive.org, under the CIA Records Disclosure Program. The document was released to the public through The Black Vault on June thirteenth, two thousand two. Declassification was authorized under the CIA Records Disclosure Program, reference CIA‑RDP68B00724R000200090019‑1. The full text is available at archive.org/download/us‑china‑intel‑CI01860/CI01860_djvu.txt. The memorandum begins: “Subject: Resume of Mission C058C. Mission C058C was alerted on fourteen March, nineteen sixty‑eight. This was a round‑robin mission with launch and 25X11 recovery on sixteen March, nineteen sixty‑eight. Pre‑planned mission data: Distance one thousa

This episode presents a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record concerning Communist China’s strategic weapons program, a National Intelligence Estimate dated April fourth, nineteen sixty‑eight. The document is notable because it updates earlier assessments of China’s missile and nuclear capabilities during the height of the Cultural Revolution. The memorandum was released through the Black Vault’s public archive, uploaded from a digitized copy of the original CIA file. The release is identified in the Black Vault entry for the file, with the document made available on the archive website on the date of upload. The declassification authority is the United States Intelligence Board, as indicated in the heading of the memorandum. The memorandum, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence, begins with a scope note. It reads: “Scope note. This memorandum discusses certain developments that bear on some of the important judgments in National Intelligence Estimate thirteen‑eig