CIA: Today, we examine a declassified C.I.A.

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Declassified. Today, we examine a declassified C.I.A. intelligence report, "Mao Tse-tung and Historical Materialism Three: Contradictions in a Socialist Society." This document, dated October twentieth, nineteen sixty-one, offers a rare look into how U.S. intelligence analyzed the philosophical underpinnings of Chinese Communist thought during the Cold War. You can find this document at vault.fbi.gov. This intelligence staff study, designated O.C.I. number five-one-three-two-slash-sixty-one, was released in May two-thousand-seven. It was declassified under Executive Order…