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This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record concerning Taiwanese claims of attacks on Chinese Communist installations, dated November twenty‑eighth, nineteen sixty‑seven. The telegram was sent from the Department of State to the United States Embassy in Taipei and reflects Washington’s assessment of recent events on the mainland. The document was released to the public through The Black Vault, the online repository that publishes declassified U.S. government records. The material was posted without a specific Freedom of Information Act case number, and the declassification authority is the Central Intelligence Agency. The telegram reads as follows: “OUTGOING TELEGRAM – Department of State – ACTION: Embassy Taipei – PRIORITY. Classification: Secret. Origin: Embassy Tokyo. Reference: A. Taipei 1475, B. Hong Kong 3025, C. Taipei 906. The Embassy in Taipei’s careful investigation and appraisal of the recent alleged raid by a GRC commando team against a Chinese Communist airbase (Reference A) indicates that Reference B seems to confirm Taipei’s assessment that the report may have been a fabrication. The Department is aware that the GRC feels obliged, in order to sustain the credibility of its mainland recovery goal, to present a public image of being actively engaged in hastening the downfall of the Chinese Communist regime. In doing so, however, the GRC runs the risk of sending the wrong signal to other allied governments, which are immediately concerned and, possibly, to Peking as well. There is a clear indication of sensitivity among other governments to such statements. The GRC statements were noted during the recent Sato visit here. Telegraphic transmission and EA – William Bundy. Classification approved by: a) a8 Clearances: OBA/ACA. The Embassy in Taipei – PRIORITY – The situation on the mainland tempts the GRC to try to intervene directly to establish a foothold in the coastal area of Kiangsu and Fukien in the hope of rallying anti‑Peking forces. Sato’s concern apparently arose from the fact that, notwithstanding his counsel of prudence to Chiang during the Taipei visit, the Office of the Secretary General, Chang Chun, while in Tokyo for the Yoshida funeral, again sounded a counter‑attack theme in conversations with Japanese leaders. Sato was sufficiently disturbed by the GRC posture to recommend to the President that the United States send a special envoy to Taipei to investigate the situation and urge prudence on Chiang. We, the Embassy and Country Team, have this question under close scrutiny: the most recent assessments of GRC intentions and capabilities continue to be clearly negative (Reference C, paragraph four and Reference D). Sato may have misread the situation. We do not feel, however, that we can dismiss his concerns. The Department would appreciate, therefore, an appraisal from the Embassy Country Team of the GRC’s current mood and thinking on this subject, giving particular attention to the possibility that these…

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Case File · ARCHIVE-685Declassified

Filed AUG 13 · 2026Runtime 1 min

Central Intelligence Agency Record Concerning Taiwanese Claims Of Attacks

U.S. public record · FOIAUpdated August 13, 2026

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This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record concerning Taiwanese claims of attacks on Chinese Communist installations, dated November twenty‑eighth, nineteen sixty‑seven. The telegram was sent from the Department of State to the United States Embassy in Taipei and reflects Washington’s assessment of recent events on the mainland.

Date: AUG 13 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Central Intelligence Agency Record Concerning Taiwanese Claims Of Attacks about?: This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record concerning Taiwanese claims of attacks on Chinese Communist installations, dated November twenty‑eighth, nineteen sixty‑seven. The telegram was sent from the Department of State to the United States Embassy in Taipei and reflects Washington’s assessment of recent events on the mainland.
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