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This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record titled Report on alleged Republic of China maritime incursion in Fukien, February ten, nineteen sixty‑eight. It is notable because it records a CIA assessment of a story that appeared in the Central News Agency describing a GRC operation during the Lunar New Year holiday. The document was released to the public through The Black Vault, uploaded from the CIA’s Freedom of Information Act reading room. It was declassified by the CIA’s Office of Information Management in accordance with Executive Order one‑three‑five‑two‑six. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY. SECRET. NOFORN. FROM: American Embassy Taipei. DATE: February ten, nineteen sixty‑eight. SUBJECT: GRC concocts story on New Year’s maritime incursion in Fukien. REF: Taipei 2015. Almost all dailies on January twenty‑nine gave minor coverage to a Central News Agency story that reported a number of GRC frogmen from the Kinmen Defense Command, using five motorboats, landed briefly on the Fukien coast in the early morning darkness on January twenty‑eight. The mission was billed as a heroic effort, “braving cold and high seas,” to deliver New Year’s presents of food, clothing, and medicine to a coastal village and spread propaganda calling for Mao’s overthrow. No contact with Communist troops was mentioned, and the men were said to have returned safely. A CIA report notes that the Deputy

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CIA Report On Alleged Republic Of China Maritime Incursion In Fukien

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This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record titled Report on alleged Republic of China maritime incursion in Fukien, February ten, nineteen sixty‑eight. It is notable because it records a CIA assessment of a story that appeared in the Central News Agency describing a GRC operation during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Date: AUG 10 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was CIA Report On Alleged Republic Of China Maritime Incursion In Fukien about?: This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record titled Report on alleged Republic of China maritime incursion in Fukien, February ten, nineteen sixty‑eight. It is notable because it records a CIA assessment of a story that appeared in the Central News Agency describing a GRC operation during the Lunar New Year holiday.
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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