Central Intelligence Agency intelligence assessment on the Chinese Communist

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Cold open. This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence assessment on the Chinese Communist Armed Forces, volume ten, chapter eight, section eighty, dated May first, nineteen fifty‑three. The document is notable for its detailed description of the size, organization and capabilities of the People’s Republic of China’s military during the early 1950s, and it was released to the public through The Black Vault archive. Provenance. The record was originally classified as Secret and marked for release under the National Intelligence Survey series, volume thirty‑nine A. It bears…