CIA: The document we read today is a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum
The document we read today is a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum concerning the United States military presence in Taiwan, recorded after the February twenty‑third, nineteen seventy‑nine meeting of the Special Coordination Committee Ad Hoc Working Group on China. It is notable because it captures the inter‑agency discussion of how the United States would adjust its commitments to Taiwan as the American Institute on Taiwan was being established and the Mutual Defense Treaty was being phased out. The memorandum was released to the public on July nineteenth, two thousand seven, through a…
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