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This is Declassified. Today, a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record from January fourteenth, nineteen-sixty-five, regarding the downing of a Taiwanese reconnaissance aircraft over China. This document offers a rare glimpse into intelligence gathering and analysis during the Cold War. You can find this record at documents2.theblackvault.com. This document was released under the Freedom of Information Act, though no specific FOIA case number is provided in the public record. It was declassified by the CIA in two-thousand-three. This briefing comes to you from The Black Vault archives. Quote: From: Director. To: Immediate Info: Idealist. Please deliver following message to General Carter or Mr. Knoche soonest on their arrival. Eyes Only, in a sealed envelope. Doctor Wheelon sends, following is message we propose to send to [redacted] request [redacted] review and permission for release. [redacted] We feel it imperative that [redacted] have authority for proposed discussion with [redacted] as soon as possible. We are most concerned that acknowledgement of SA-2 sites to community could [redacted] await your reply. One. Appreciate detailed, informative and timely account of [redacted] loss of Mission C-zero-two-five-C. Two. The question of [redacted] which bothers [redacted] also been of major concern to us. Little constructive evidence can be derived until there has been time for a detailed analysis of the [redacted] tapes which will take several days after their receipt in Headquarters. At the moment, and without having heard the tapes, surface speculation based upon [redacted] during the period one-three-zero-zero to one-four-zero-zero Zulu within the envelope of the incident, conceivably may have a bearing on this question. The preliminary feeling here is that any [redacted] technical change and would not have been possible to have accomplished during the interval between the twenty-fifth November Lan Chou attempted shootdown and the tenth January loss. Three. As was suggested in [redacted] message of twelve January, all elements concerned in [redacted] are undertaking intensive study of not only such possibilities as are suggested by paragraph two [redacted], but constructively to see if there are now changes in [redacted] influence [redacted] could be usefully made in the near term so as to anticipate tactical changes on the employment of [redacted]. There are also several long term possibilities, study of which had begun prior to ten January, which show promise in giving additional verification on [redacted]. Four. Re paragraph three [redacted], the afternoon of ten January Headquarters obtained COMOR concurrence in targeting the next K-H System flight on the [redacted] area and a request for such coverage was transmitted to the [redacted] Control Center within eight hours of notification of the loss. At the same time [redacted] was requested to commence an intensive, detailed, analytic study of all available materials on the…

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This is Declassified. Today, a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record from January fourteenth, nineteen-sixty-five, regarding the downing of a Taiwanese reconnaissance aircraft over China. This document offers a rare glimpse into intelligence gathering and analysis during the Cold War. com.

Date: AUG 30 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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