CIA: SCC meeting on Sino‑Vietnam conflict – Central Intelligence Agency memorandum

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SCC meeting on Sino‑Vietnam conflict – Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, twenty‑third February, nineteen‑seventy‑nine. This declassified intelligence briefing is notable because it captures U.S. assessments of the fighting in Kampuchea, the Sino‑Soviet frontier, and the China‑Vietnam border at a moment when the regional balance was shifting. The source is the Black Vault archive, https://archive.org/download/us-china-intel-CI02144/CI02144_djvu.txt. The memorandum was released under a Freedom of Information Act request, approval dated eighteenth August, two thousand three. The…