CIA: Cold open.
Cold open. This episode presents a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated June twenty‑fifth, nineteen sixty‑eight. The subject is a request to relax the three‑zero‑three Committee’s mission‑by‑mission approval restriction on the IDEALIST slash TACKLE reconnaissance program. The document is notable because it reveals internal deliberations on how weather forecasting affected U.S. intelligence collection over the Chinese mainland. Provenance. The memorandum was approved for public release on July eighth, two thousand eight, and made available through The Black Vault archive. It was…
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