CIA: Cold Open.
Cold Open. This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence cable dated June twenty‑seventh, nineteen‑sixty‑eight, reporting on increasing civil unrest in Kwangst, Kupeh, Peking, Fuxien and Yunnan. The document is notable because it provides contemporaneous U.S. intelligence assessments of widespread armed clashes across several Chinese provinces during a period of heightened domestic turbulence. The source is available through the public archive at archive.org. Provenance. The cable was released to the public through The Black Vault, a repository of declassified government…
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