CIA: "Declassified", a storyflo podcast

This is "Declassified", a storyflo podcast. Today, we examine a declassified Central Intelligence Agency memorandum concerning U-2 and K-H-7 reconnaissance over Communist China, dated January sixteenth, nineteen-sixty-three. This document provides a glimpse into early Cold War aerial surveillance efforts and their operational challenges. The record is accessible at archive.org via the Black Vault. This document was released by the Central Intelligence Agency under a Freedom of Information Act request, with a declassification date of May thirty-first, two-thousand-and-two. It represents a declassified record from the Office of the Deputy Director for Research. The memorandum, titled "Action Memorandum No. A-one-six-one on Communist China", is addressed to the Executive Director and signed by Herbert Scoville, Junior, Deputy Director for Research. It states: "One. In response to your action memorandum, paragraph two-F, I am herewith submitting a memorandum (T-C-S-three-three-nine-three-s