CIA: ELINT Requirements for Collection by [one line redacted under exemption B1]

Storyflo Declassified — The Untold Cases · Sep 20, 2026 · 1m

This is Declassified. Today, we examine a March twelfth, nineteen-fifty-nine, Central Intelligence Agency memorandum titled ELINT Requirements for Collection by [one line redacted under exemption B1]. This document, marked Top Secret Chess and Top Secret Eider, discusses the effectiveness and future needs for electronic intelligence gathering in Asia. You can find this document at archive.org, under the collection "US Intelligence on China CI01342." This document was declassified on August eighteenth, two-thousand-one, under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency's historical review…