CIA: Declassified presents a memorandum from April twelfth, nineteen-sixty-one

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Declassified presents a memorandum from April twelfth, nineteen-sixty-one, from the United States Central Intelligence Agency regarding the implications of a Chinese Communist nuclear capability. This document, found at documents2.theblackvault.com, offers an early assessment of China's atomic energy program. This declassified record was released by the Central Intelligence Agency under the Freedom of Information Act. The document, bearing the serial number CI01420, was declassified on an unspecified date by a declassification authority within the Agency. The document states, "This memorandum…