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Cold Open. This is a declassified U.S. intelligence cable concerning the leadership of the Taiwanese military, dated December first, nineteen fifty. The document appears in the public archive of The Black Vault, a repository for historically released government records. Provenance. The cable was made publicly available through The Black Vault’s digital collection, uploaded as a text file from the original scanned source. The posting does not cite a specific Freedom of Information Act case number, but the material is marked as declassified and released for public access by the originating agency. The Document. Classified Incoming: “Message – Routine.” From: AULA, a TAXPEE ForHoah, sap BARRETT, sap RANKIN, M‑0, staff, Communications Office. Paragraphs required: “Conseniine pard‑in Weeka 49‑Se.” The body of the cable reads: “Lt Gen Misher Hou, G2, and appointed Colonel Ted Ming Tang, CAP to this post, source close to Gen Hou‑ing‑Chin and considered reliable. Reports following which we believe … situation at present. Gen Hou has been appointed Chairman of the Strategic Planning Board of the MND, which as far as known has little if any power. This is entirely different from the Advisory Committee on Strategy which operates ... under Gan Ho Ming‑Chin. Present guerrillas on the mainland are … general. … Special Commission of which Chairman is Den Chou Chih‑Hou. Includes representatives from MND, political department MND, Executive Yuan, Ministry of Interior and Central. Rear Bq. Under this commission is Department for Continental Operations which is headed by Gen Cheng Chieh‑Min, one of the vice ministers of National Defense, appointed head thirty‑first November. This department will have direct control over guerrilla activities. Appointment of Gen Cheng not yet announced pending decision on a … of this department. INFO! A‑3 COPY HOT A – SECRET. B‑2 – REPLACES DA SCO. FORM … EN ‘49, which may be used. Government Printing Office: nineteen fifty – O‑868130.” Redaction markers appear as gaps and illegible fragments within the original text, indicated by missing characters and broken words, reflecting the condition of the source scan. Context. No additional explanatory statement was provided by the issuing agency in the released file. The archive entry notes that the cable is part of a larger collection of U.S. intelligence assessments on China and Taiwan from the early Cold War period, but no formal agency commentary accompanies this specific document. Outro. This is what the public record looks like at its most ordinary. For the full source, visit storyflo.com and the document’s canonical URL at archive.org/download/us‑china‑intel‑CI00600/CI00600djvu.txt.

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Case File · ARCHIVE-011Declassified

Filed OCT 28 · 2026Runtime 1 min

CIA Intelligence Cable Concerning The Leadership Of The Taiwanese Military

U.S. public record · FOIAUpdated October 28, 2026

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Cold Open. S. intelligence cable concerning the leadership of the Taiwanese military, dated December first, nineteen fifty. The document appears in the public archive of The Black Vault, a repository for historically released government records. Provenance. The cable was made publicly available through The Black Vault’s digital collection, uploaded as a text file from the original scanned source.

Date: OCT 28 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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Cold Open. This is a declassified U.S. intelligence cable concerning the leadership of the Taiwanese military, dated December first, nineteen fifty. The document appears in the public archive of The Black Vault, a repository for historically released government records. Provenance. The cable was…

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What was CIA Intelligence Cable Concerning The Leadership Of The Taiwanese Military about?: Cold Open. S. intelligence cable concerning the leadership of the Taiwanese military, dated December first, nineteen fifty. The document appears in the public archive of The Black Vault, a repository for historically released government records. Provenance. The cable was made publicly available through The Black Vault’s digital collection, uploaded as a text file from the original scanned source.
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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