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Cold Open. This is a declassified United States intelligence memorandum concerning the Far East Command’s operational areas in relation to China. The document is a memorandum for record, top secret, transmitted by cable C five nine one five two on December eleventh, nineteen fifty‑one. It is notable because it outlines the geographic limits and responsibilities assigned to United States forces in the western Pacific during the early Korean War period. The source is archived at The Black Vault. Provenance. The memorandum was released to the public through The Black Vault’s digital archive, which hosts declassified government records. The file was posted as part of a broader collection of United States intelligence on China, identified in the archive by the reference CI zero zero eight three nine. The declassification authority is the United States Department of Defense, and the document was made available without restriction on the archive’s website. The Document. The text of the memorandum reads as follows: “Records … Department of the Army, Far East Command … memorandum for record, top secret, cable C five nine one five two, December eleventh, nineteen fifty‑one … operational matters agreed to by CINCPAC, CINCPACSTRAT, and CINCPACF include coasts of China and adjacent‑China, the ... south to Pula … lighthouse (zero eight degrees north, one zero eight degrees south), … gives authority … over coast of ... three ... limit seaward … apply to: ... China; and ... China south … except as referred to at ...” The remainder of the page contains additional notations and approvals. At the bottom the document bears the signature block: “Approved by COFS December tenth, nineteen fifty‑one, initialed H … Colonel, General Staff with Adjutant General … Copies …”. Context. No additional contextual statement was provided by the issuing agency in the archive entry. Outro. This is what the public record looks like at its most ordinary. For the full document, visit storyflo.com and the archive at https://archive.org/download/us-china-intel-CI00839/CI00839djvu.txt.

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This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked on this page so the citation chain is auditable.

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Cold Open. This is a declassified United States intelligence memorandum concerning the Far East Command’s operational areas in relation to China. The document is a memorandum for record, top secret, transmitted by cable C five nine one five two on December eleventh, nineteen fifty‑one.

Date: OCT 15 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Army: United States Intelligence Memorandum Concerning The Far East Command’s about?: Cold Open. This is a declassified United States intelligence memorandum concerning the Far East Command’s operational areas in relation to China. The document is a memorandum for record, top secret, transmitted by cable C five nine one five two on December eleventh, nineteen fifty‑one.
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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