CIA: Declassified presents a Cold War era Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum

Storyflo Declassified — The Untold Cases · Sep 19, 2026 · 1m

Declassified presents a Cold War era Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum concerning strategic intelligence targets for a possible Central Intelligence Agency mission in Tibet. This document, dated April twenty-fourth, nineteen-fifty-nine, reveals high-level military recommendations for aerial reconnaissance in Southeast Asia and China. The full document is available at archive.org. This two-page memorandum, designated SC-zero-two-one-one-four-slash-five-nine, was approved for release on September twenty-ninth, two-thousand-three, by the Central Intelligence Agency under declassification…