CIA: The document we are hearing today is a Central Intelligence Agency intelligence
The document we are hearing today is a Central Intelligence Agency intelligence assessment titled The Vietnamese Leadership and the Indochina Crisis of 1979. It was prepared on April thirtieth, nineteen‑seventy‑nine, and it was declassified and released on May ninth, two thousand and two. It is notable because it offers a contemporaneous U.S. analysis of Vietnam’s political leadership during the brief war with China and the ongoing conflict in Kampuchea. This assessment was made public through a Freedom of Information Act request, case number FOIA‑2002‑05‑09, and was released by the CIA’s…
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