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This declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, a June nineteen sixty-two supplement to a National Intelligence Estimate, provides an overview of the prospects for Communist China in the early nineteen sixties. This document is archived at documents2.theblackvault.com. This document, identified as C-I-Zero-One-Four-Nine-Two, was released in May two-thousand-four, following a declassification review under exemption B3. It is a historical record, presented in its original form. National Intelligence Estimate Number Thirteen-Four-Point-One-Sixty-Two, Supplement to N-I-E Thirteen-Four-Sixty-Two, Prospects for Communist China. Submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence. Concurred in by the United States Intelligence Board, June twenty-ninth, nineteen sixty-two. Note one: The text of N-I-E Thirteen-Four-Sixty-Two, dated May second, nineteen sixty-two, discussed the economic problems, military situation, and internal stability of Communist China within a relatively brief compass. The following three annexes amplify these discussions and provide backup information for the estimates made therein. Note two: Significant changes in the deployment of Chinese Communist military forces which have occurred since the publication of N-I-E Thirteen-Four-Sixty-Two, Prospects for Communist China, dated May second, nineteen sixty-two, have been discussed in S-N-I-E Thirteen-Five-Sixty-Two, Chinese Communist Short-Range Military Intentions, dated June twentieth, nineteen sixty-two. Annex B in this set of annexes addresses itself to analysis of Communist China's overall military strength and basic capabilities, which have not been affected by the recent and current redeployments. With this exception, the annexes include the latest available information. Contents: Annex A, Economic. Annex B, Military. Annex C, Internal Security. Prospects for Communist China. Annex A: Economic. One. Background. Paragraph one: The fundamental economic problem faced by the policymakers of Communist China is the pressure of a huge and rapidly growing population on a relatively small acreage of arable land. Only about twelve percent of the land area of China can be profitably cultivated today. The margin between food supply and the population's nutritional requirements has long been slim. Paragraph two: However, beginning immediately after the takeover in October nineteen forty-nine, the Communist leaders embarked on a policy of forced-draft industrialization by channeling the maximum possible amount of funds into the development of heavy industry. The correlative policy decision was to skimp on agricultural investment; China's farms became in effect a residual claimant on resources. In spite of this policy, agriculture was able through most of the first decade of Communist rule to supply the population with an uninspiring but adequate diet and provided a surplus for export. These exports went largely to pay for imports of industrial goods and to provide debt service on the…

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This declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, a June nineteen sixty-two supplement to a National Intelligence Estimate, provides an overview of the prospects for Communist China in the early nineteen sixties. com. This document, identified as C-I-Zero-One-Four-Nine-Two, was released in May two-thousand-four, following a declassification review under exemption B3.

Date: SEP 12 · 2026
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This declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, a June nineteen sixty-two supplement to a National Intelligence Estimate, provides an overview of the prospects for Communist China in the early nineteen sixties. This document is archived at documents2.theblackvault.com. This document…

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What was This Declassified Central Intelligence Agency Record, A June Nineteen Sixty Two about?: This declassified Central Intelligence Agency record, a June nineteen sixty-two supplement to a National Intelligence Estimate, provides an overview of the prospects for Communist China in the early nineteen sixties. com. This document, identified as C-I-Zero-One-Four-Nine-Two, was released in May two-thousand-four, following a declassification review under exemption B3.
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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