CIA: This is a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency report on China’s land

Storyflo Declassified — The Untold Cases · Aug 3, 2026 · 2m

This is a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency report on China’s land defense strategy, known as the “Luring Deep” analysis, dated March first, nineteen eighty. It is notable because it provides a contemporary U.S. assessment of how the People’s Republic of China planned to respond to a conventional Soviet ground invasion. The document was released to the public through a Freedom of Information Act request and uploaded to The Black Vault website. The release date on the archive is listed as the date of upload, and the declassification authority is the Defense Intelligence Agency. The full…