CIA: Cold Open.
Cold Open. This episode presents a declassified United States intelligence cable concerning Communist Chinese nuclear capabilities, produced by the Central Intelligence Agency on July twenty‑fifth, nineteen sixty‑eight. The assessment is notable because it offers a contemporaneous view of China’s strategic weapons development during a period of heightened Cold War tension. Provenance. The document was released to the public through The Black Vault, which hosts the full text of the cable under its archival identifier. The declassification was authorized by the CIA’s Director of Central…
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