Navy: Today, we examine a September nineteen-fifty-three top-secret memorandum

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This is Declassified. Today, we examine a September nineteen-fifty-three top-secret memorandum from the Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet, regarding Chinese Nationalist capabilities to blockade Communist China. This document reveals U.S. intelligence assessments of Taiwan's naval strength during a critical period of the Cold War. You can find this record on archive.org, sourced from documents2.theblackvault.com. This document was released under a Freedom of Information Act request, declassified on September twenty-ninth, two-thousand-fourteen, by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals…