Government record: a memorandum from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Brigadier

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This is a declassified government record: a memorandum from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Brigadier General Goodpaster, dated July fifth, nineteen sixty, requesting the resumption of low‑altitude photographic reconnaissance operations over the People’s Republic of China. The document was released to the public through The Black Vault. It appears in the online collection under the identifier CI‑01390 and was made available as part of a broader declassification effort by the National Archives. The release date listed on the archive is twenty‑second of March, twenty‑twenty‑three, and the…