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The document you are hearing is a Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report titled “The Sino‑Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev’s Fall, Part One.” It was prepared in September 1967 and is notable because it offers a contemporaneous CIA analysis of the evolving rivalry between the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties and its impact on the global communist movement. This report was approved for release in May 2007. The declassification was authorized by the Director of Central Intelligence under the authority of Executive Order 12958, as part of the agency’s ongoing effort to make historical intelligence products publicly accessible. The full text is available through the Black Vault archive at the URL https://archive.org/download/us-china-intel-CI01828/CI01828djvu.txt. The report begins as follows: “Approved for release date: May 2007. Tor Secret – Directorate of Intelligence. Intelligence Report – ‘The Sino‑Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev’s Fall – (Part 1). Reference Title: ESAU XXXIV. ToSecret 45 September 1967. TS No. 190151/67. This working paper of the D‑D/I Research Staff examines in detail the evolving relationship of the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties to the world Communist movement from the time of Khrushchev’s fall in October 1964 through the end of May 1967. The paper attempts to describe the principal public and private dealings between the CPSU and the CCP throughout this period; the dealings of each of the two antagonists with the most important parties of the world movement; the dealings of many of those other parties with each other, and the effect of their interests on the policies of the Soviet and Chinese parties; the role played by the evolution of Soviet policy toward the United States in the Sino‑Soviet struggle for influence over the Communist movement; and the role played by the internal life of the Soviet and Chinese parties on the course the Sino‑Soviet struggle has followed since Khrushchev’s fall. The paper is organized in three parts, published separately as ESAU XXXIV, XXXV, and XXXVI. Part I describes the shift in the emphasis of CPSU policy in the first six months after Khrushchev’s fall toward a more vigorous appeal to the interests of all those parties—such as the North Vietnamese—hitherto inclined toward the Chinese and having a special, private vested interest in militant struggle against the United States. Part II traces the growing CPSU success in 1965 and early 1966 in neutralizing these militant former supporters of the Chinese by advocating ‘unity of action’ in support of North Vietnam against the United States and by capitalizing on Mao Zedong’s refusal to cooperate and Mao’s arrogant attitude toward all who would not obey him completely. Part III discusses the flow of events beginning with Mao’s refusal to attend the 23rd CPSU Congress in the spring of 1966 and his simultaneous surfacing of the gigantic purge known as the ‘Great…

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CIA The Sino‑soviet Struggle In The World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev

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” It was prepared in September 1967 and is notable because it offers a contemporaneous CIA analysis of the evolving rivalry between the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties and its impact on the global communist movement. This report was approved for release in May 2007.

Date: AUG 14 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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The document you are hearing is a Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report titled “The Sino‑Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev’s Fall, Part One.” It was prepared in September 1967 and is notable because it offers a contemporaneous CIA analysis of the evolving…

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What was CIA The Sino‑soviet Struggle In The World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev about?: ” It was prepared in September 1967 and is notable because it offers a contemporaneous CIA analysis of the evolving rivalry between the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties and its impact on the global communist movement. This report was approved for release in May 2007.
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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