CIA: Mission C027C over the People’s Republic of China – a Central Intelligence
Mission C027C over the People’s Republic of China – a Central Intelligence Agency record dated seventeen January, nineteen sixty‑seven – is a six‑page resume of a high‑altitude photographic reconnaissance flight. The document is notable because it details a Cold War aerial survey of strategic airfields and missile sites along the southern coast of China, and it provides the first public glimpse of the CIA’s “Canned Route” program. The memorandum was released through a Freedom of Information Act request filed under case number CIA‑FOIA‑2002‑018. The record was declassified on the nineteenth of…
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