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Daily Summary Excerpt, Chinese Communist Intervention in Korea, October twentieth, nineteen fifty, a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, notable for being one of the earliest U.S. intelligence assessments of the People's Republic’s entry into the Korean War, hosted on the Black Vault archive. The document was released to the public through a Freedom of Information Act request, reference number unknown, with the release dated twenty‑second of March, twenty‑twenty‑three. The declassification authority is listed as the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Information Management. The full text is available at the Black Vault URL archive dot org slash download slash us‑china‑intel‑CI00526 slash CI00526djvu dot txt. Now the document itself. Daily Summary Excerpt, twentieth of October, nineteen fifty, Chinese Communist Intervention in Korea. One four two four General Chinese Communist intervention in Korea—The United States Military Liaison Officer in Hong Kong transmits a report that the Peiping regime has decided to take military action in North Korea. The report is attributed to a representative of the source. According to the source, four hundred thousand Chinese Communist troops had been moved to the Korean border and alerted to cross on the night of eighteenth of October or “two days later.” CIA Comment: For some time the Chinese Communists have possessed the capability for direct military intervention in the Korean conflict, C‑I‑A believes, however, that the optimum time for such action has passed. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China are not considered at this time to be willing to assume the increased risk of precipitating a third World War which could result from direct Chinese Communist intervention in Korea. End of excerpt. The Central Intelligence Agency’s release includes no additional contextual statement beyond the standard disclaimer that the material reflects the agency’s assessment at the time of its creation and has not been altered. This is what the public record looks like at its most ordinary. For more declassified documents, visit storyflo dot com and the original source at archive dot org slash download slash us‑china‑intel‑CI00526 slash CI00526djvu dot txt.

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Filed OCT 31 · 2026Runtime 1 min

CIA Daily Summary Excerpt, Chinese Communist Intervention In Korea, October

U.S. public record · FOIAUpdated October 31, 2026

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S. intelligence assessments of the People's Republic’s entry into the Korean War, hosted on the Black Vault archive. The document was released to the public through a Freedom of Information Act request, reference number unknown, with the release dated twenty‑second of March, twenty‑twenty‑three.

Date: OCT 31 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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Daily Summary Excerpt, Chinese Communist Intervention in Korea, October twentieth, nineteen fifty, a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, notable for being one of the earliest U.S. intelligence assessments of the People's Republic’s entry into the Korean War, hosted on the Black Vault…

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What was CIA Daily Summary Excerpt, Chinese Communist Intervention In Korea, October about?: S. intelligence assessments of the People's Republic’s entry into the Korean War, hosted on the Black Vault archive. The document was released to the public through a Freedom of Information Act request, reference number unknown, with the release dated twenty‑second of March, twenty‑twenty‑three.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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