CIA: From Declassified, a storyflo podcast.

From Declassified, a storyflo podcast. This declassified cable from the State Department, dated September fourteenth, nineteen-sixty-two, details concerns about a US Navy patrol off the coast of China and the potential for a confrontation. It is available at archive.org. This document was released by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State, and made available through The Black Vault. The document begins: AI Department of State Permanent Record copy. SECRET. Control number zero five four three five. Received September fourteenth, nineteen-sixty-two, five fifty-two AM. Info Hong Kong. To: Secretary of State. No: five five nine, September fourteenth, six PM. Priority NIACT. ACTION Department five five nine, INFORMATION CINCPAC NIACT two one, INR, CIA, CINCPAC FOR POLAD, O-S-D, Army, Navy, Air. Reference: CONGENTELS five one six, five five four, Warsaw's A-one six five. CONGEN HAS JUST LEARNED FROM U-S-NAVEL-O HONG KONG THAT U-S-S SHELTON, DD-seven ninety, BEING ASSIGNE