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

This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency cable concerning Taiwan’s request for Japanese assistance, dated September twenty‑seventh, nineteen sixty‑seven. The document is notable because it records a direct appeal by President Chiang Kai‑shek to the Japanese prime minister for help in influencing United States policy toward a counter‑attack against mainland China. The cable was made publicly available through The Black Vault. The Black Vault uploaded the full text of the declassified record, providing the original transcription as it appears in the agency’s archives. The release is part of the agency’s ongoing effort to make historical intelligence documents accessible under the Freedom of Information Act. The cable reads as follows. “TAIPEI – The embassy has just learned that President Chiang made a strong request during his recent talks with Japanese Prime Minister Sato that the Government of Japan help persuade the United States to back a G‑R‑C counter‑attack. Information r

This episode opens with a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record titled Country Team Assessment of GRC Intentions, dated September thirtieth, nineteen sixty‑seven. The document is notable because it provides a contemporaneous U.S. intelligence evaluation of the People’s Republic of China’s military planning during the height of the Cultural Revolution. The record was released to the public through The Black Vault, which hosts the full text of the cable. The declassification was authorized by the CIA’s Office of Information Management, and the document was made available online on the archive site archive dot org. The entry can be accessed at the Black Vault URL for the CI‑01834 file. Now, the document itself. The cable is marked secret and begins with a header indicating its origin in the Department of State, followed by a telegram from the U.S. Embassy in Taipei to the Secretary of State in Washington. The subject line reads: Country Team Assessment – of GRC Intentions. The a

This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency photographic intelligence report on a suspect signals intelligence facility at Chih‑kan, China, dated October 1967. The document is notable because it provides a rare visual and technical description of a Cold War era communications installation that U.S. analysts believed could be linked to foreign intelligence activities in the region. The record was made publicly available through The Black Vault, an online archive that publishes declassified U.S. government documents. The release is part of a broader effort to provide public access to historical intelligence assessments. The document bears a declassification review notation from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and the Department of Defense, indicating that it was cleared for public dissemination after a standard review process. The report reads as follows: CHIH‑KAN SUSPECT SIGINT FACILITY CHINA OCTOBER 1967 Copy 1 of 2 pages. Declassification review by N-I-M-A slash D-O-D,

COLD OPEN This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record titled Introduction to the SIGINT Installation Series, China, dated October 1967. The document provides an early overview of Chinese Communist signal‑intelligence facilities and was made publicly available through The Black Vault archive. PROVENANCE The record was released to the public via The Black Vault on the archive page for the CIA collection, with the declassification authority cited as the Central Intelligence Agency. The full text is accessible at the archive dot org link for the CIA record. THE DOCUMENT Introduction to the SIGINT Installation Series, China. Declassification review by N I M A slash D O D. October 1967. Copy one hundred sixteen, four pages. Approved for release. This report introduces an N P I C series of reports on the Chinese Communist S I G I N T facilities and is a partial answer to N S A requirement N S A slash S O C slash R nine six dash six seven. The series will consist of short individ

This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency photographic intelligence report concerning a probable signals intelligence facility near La‑sa in Tibet, dated October 1967. The document is notable because it provides detailed antenna configurations and geographic coordinates for a site that was previously unreferenced in public sources. The record was released through The Black Vault archival collection, originating from a declassification review conducted by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and the Department of Defense. The release date is recorded as December nineteenth, two thousand three, and the material is identified in the archive under the identifier CI01837. The source URL is archive.org/download/us-china-intel-CI01837/CI01837_djvu.txt. The document reads as follows: App pei reise two thousand three, December nineteenth : CIA‑RDP78T04759A007400010034‑9 LA‑SA probable SIGINT facility, Tibet. October 1967, copy one, three pages, size twenty‑five by eleven centimeters

Cold Open. This episode presents a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated eight September, nineteen sixty‑seven, titled “Request for Assistance in Investigation of Loss of U‑2 Aircraft.” The document records the agency’s assessment of a downed U‑2 over eastern China and the subsequent analysis of the mission. It is hosted on the public archive at archive.org. Provenance. The memorandum was released to the public through a Freedom of Information Act request and declassified on March fifteenth, two thousand six. The declassification was authorized by the CIA’s Directorate of History, and the full text is available from The Black Vault and the Internet Archive at the URL provided. The Document. Memorandum for: Deputy Director for Plans. Subject: Request for Assistance in Investigation of Loss of U‑2. Eight September, nineteen sixty‑seven. Preliminary conclusions regarding the loss of an IDEALIST/TACKLE U‑2 in Che‑chiang Province, eastern China, indicate that the aircraft was most pr