CIA: China, Central Intelligence Agency, weekly intelligence summary, “China’s

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China, Central Intelligence Agency, weekly intelligence summary, “China’s Cultural Revolution in 1968,” dated December sixth, nineteen sixty‑eight. The document is notable because it offers a contemporaneous CIA assessment of the political and military developments during the height of the Cultural Revolution. The report was declassified and approved for public release on March fifteenth, two thousand five, under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Director for Declassification. It was made available through The Black Vault, which hosts the full text at the archive link…