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This is "Declassified", a storyflo podcast. Today, we examine a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record from January twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-five, detailing the procedures for exchanging intelligence on U-2 missions over China. This document offers insight into the operational concerns and inter-agency coordination for high-altitude reconnaissance. You can find this record at documents2.theblackvault.com. This document, identified as CI Zero one six five five, was declassified and approved for release on February seventeenth, two thousand five. It became publicly available via the Freedom of Information Act, or F-O-I-A, and represents a routine declassification as part of a larger collection of U.S. intelligence documents on China. The document is titled "An Analysis of O-S-A-N-P-I-C Procedures for Exchange of Information and Actions Taken for Mission C Zero two five C". One. O-S-A, having the responsibility for successfully carrying out U-2 missions over various parts of the world, relies on all sources of information which indicate a possible threat to the safety of the mission. Experience has shown that unlike other operations involving the use of the aircraft, there are fewer items to be considered as a threat to the U-2 because of the aircraft's very high operating altitude. Of special interest in the past have been hostile intercept aircraft, including the associated destruction systems and the threat of the surface-to-air missile. Two. Intelligence information relative to the intercept aircraft which might react in a hostile manner toward the U-2 is obtained from many sources; however, the primary office we look to for aircraft performance estimates has been O-S-I slash D-D-S and T. In addition to [redacted] estimates, O-S-I maintains an up-to-date Order of Battle [redacted] aircraft; particularly none which might pose a threat to the U-2. Daily contact [redacted] with O-S-I is maintained by O-S-A to insure that O-S-A has the latest estimates and aircraft Order of Battle. Relations between O-S-I and O-S-A have been excellent. Three. The primary source of surface-to-air missile, or S-A-M, Order of Battle has been N-P-I-C, and this should be obvious since photographic interpretation of particularly K-H materials [redacted] has been the greatest source of S-A-M Order of Battle by a large margin. [redacted] However, by far the most prolific and positive source of S-A-M Order of Battle comes from N-P-I-C. Four. Realizing that N-P-I-C is the main source of S-A-M Order of Battle, O-S-A has made it a precedent to maintain close liaison with N-P-I-C at all times on new S-A-M Order of Battle information. There should be no doubt that N-P-I-C realizes its role in support of Idealist Operations, and though the exact role which N-P-I-C plays in the U-2 operations is not spelled out in so many words, a precedent has been established over the years which is irrefutable. Five. Since targets for [redacted] coverage are widely scattered…

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This is "Declassified", a storyflo podcast. Today, we examine a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record from January twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-five, detailing the procedures for exchanging intelligence on U-2 missions over China. This document offers insight into the operational concerns and inter-agency coordination for high-altitude reconnaissance.

Date: AUG 30 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was CIA "declassified", A Storyflo Podcast about?: This is "Declassified", a storyflo podcast. Today, we examine a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record from January twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-five, detailing the procedures for exchanging intelligence on U-2 missions over China. This document offers insight into the operational concerns and inter-agency coordination for high-altitude reconnaissance.
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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