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CIA: Mao’s Red Guard Diplomacy: 1967 is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency

Mao’s Red Guard Diplomacy: 1967 is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report dated June twenty‑first, nineteen sixty‑eight. The document is notable because it offers a contemporaneous analysis of the extraordinary and, by the agency’s own assessment, irrational diplomatic conduct of Communist China during the height of the Cultural Revolution. The report was approved for release in May two thousand seven. It was made publicly available through The Black Vault, which hosts the full text as part of its online archive of declassified U.S. government records. The…

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