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Third Warning Meeting on China – a declassified Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated January twelfth, nineteen seventy‑nine. The note is notable because it records the agenda for a senior‑level warning group discussion on China just after the United States moved to normalize relations with Peking. This memorandum was released to the public through a Freedom of Information Act request and formally approved for release in April two thousand four by the Director of Central Intelligence. The declassification was carried out by the CIA’s Office of Information Management. The full text is available from The Black Vault at the URL https://archive.org/download/us-china-intel-CI02130/CI02130djvu.txt. The Director of Central Intelligence Washington, D. C. January twelfth, nineteen seventy‑nine National Intelligence Officer for China Memorandum for: See Distribution Subject: Third Warning Meeting on China On December twentieth, Jim Lilley called for a meeting of the Warning Group on China to take place on January seventeenth at fourteen hundred hours in Room seven E‑62, CIA Headquarters. I propose discussion of the following subjects at that meeting. You may, of course, raise additional topics if you believe them to be urgent. The Sino‑Soviet border, given Moscow’s treaty with Hanoi—have the chances for active trouble on the border risen as a result of the current war in Cambodia? Is United States normalization of relations with Peking likely to make the Soviet Union more or

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This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked on this page so the citation chain is auditable.

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Third Warning Meeting on China – a declassified Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated January twelfth, nineteen seventy‑nine. The note is notable because it records the agenda for a senior‑level warning group discussion on China just after the United States moved to normalize relations with Peking.

Date: AUG 4 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was CIA Third Warning Meeting On China – A Declassified Central Intelligence Agency about?: Third Warning Meeting on China – a declassified Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated January twelfth, nineteen seventy‑nine. The note is notable because it records the agenda for a senior‑level warning group discussion on China just after the United States moved to normalize relations with Peking.
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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