CIA: This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency briefing on the Chinese
This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency briefing on the Chinese military incursion into Vietnam in early 1979, dated approximately March thirteenth, nineteen seventy‑nine. The document is notable because it offers a contemporaneous assessment of the scale, objectives, and outcomes of the brief but intense Sino‑Vietnamese conflict that followed Vietnam’s invasion of Kampuchea. The briefing was released under the Freedom of Information Act on June twenty‑ninth, two thousand four. The declassification authority was the CIA’s Office of Information Management, and the material was made…
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