CIA: This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency scientific intelligence
This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency scientific intelligence digest concerning China’s nuclear energy program and the Cultural Revolution, dated May nineteen sixty‑eight, released under the agency’s Top Secret classification. The document is notable because it offers an internal assessment of how the political upheaval of the Cultural Revolution intersected with China’s early nuclear weapons development. The record was made public through a Freedom of Information Act request, identified in the case file as the request for CIA scientific intelligence on China, and was released in…
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