CIA: Declassified presents a May nineteen-fifty-six memorandum from the Joint Chiefs

Storyflo Declassified — The Untold Cases · Sep 23, 2026 · 1m

Declassified presents a May nineteen-fifty-six memorandum from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Chairman, regarding Chinese Nationalist harassment of Soviet shipping. This document, available at the Black Vault, highlights tensions in the South China Sea. This record was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Black Vault and declassified under the authority of the National Archives and Records Administration. The document, a memorandum dated May twenty-first, nineteen-fifty-six, is from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington twenty-five, D.C. It is addressed to the…