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This is Declassified. Today, we examine a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, a Current Intelligence Bulletin from April twenty-sixth, nineteen-fifty-three, which reports on a MiG-15 attack from East China on a U-S Navy plane and the deteriorating situation in Laos. This document is available at documents2.theblackvault.com. This document was approved for release on December third, two-thousand-three, under the authority of exemption F six of an unknown declassification authority. It is a Central Intelligence Agency record. The document opens with a summary. General: Comment on Pravda's reply to Eisenhower's address. Soviet Union: Moscow Embassy reports no indications of Satellite foreign policy conference. Far East: MiG-15 from East China attacks U-S Navy plane. Southeast Asia: British take pessimistic view of Laos situation. Laos fears Viet Minh may be joined by sympathizers from Thailand. The document continues under the heading General: Comment on Pravda's reply to President Eisenhower's address: Pravda's reply to the President's April sixteenth speech on the international situation constitutes an effort to regain the initiative in the "peace offensive" through a strong appeal to world opinion. The appeal is couched in terms intended to demonstrate the consistent rectitude of Soviet foreign policy during the postwar years and to blame the continued unsolved international issues on the United States. This "peace offensive," as elaborated in Pravda, differs from those periodically conducted in the past by the Soviet Government only in its more comprehensive character. Pravda's treatment of the major cold war issues suggests little inclination to compromise. The editorial indeed rejects the concept that there has been a "termination of a certain era in Soviet policy" and particularly in Soviet foreign policy, "the correctness of which has been proved by the entire course of international development." Having thus, by implication at least, cast aside the possibility of a major change in Soviet foreign policy, Pravda suggests that it is more appropriate to speak of the "end of an era" in American policy. Thus it is inferred that the United States rather than the U-S-S-R should compromise on international issues. Pravda concludes by reiterating the Kremlin's ostensible willingness to discuss international issues: the U-S-S-R, unlike President Eisenhower, does not set up a series of preliminary conditions, but would welcome "any step by the U-S Government or the government of any other country... directed toward a friendly settlement of contentious questions... by direct negotiations and, when necessary, within the framework of the United Nations." Thus, having set forth its position in general terms, the Kremlin attempts to call on the United States to make specific proposals and to take the next concrete step toward discussions. Under the heading Soviet Union: Moscow Embassy reports no indications of Satellite foreign policy…

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This is Declassified. Today, we examine a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, a Current Intelligence Bulletin from April twenty-sixth, nineteen-fifty-three, which reports on a MiG-15 attack from East China on a U-S Navy plane and the deteriorating situation in Laos.

Date: OCT 6 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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