CIA: Proposal for TACKLE Coverage of Northeast China.

Today on Declassified, we examine a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from June twenty-ninth, nineteen-sixty-two, titled "Proposal for TACKLE Coverage of Northeast China." This Top Secret document reveals the ongoing intelligence gathering efforts on Chinese military and industrial capabilities during the Cold War. You can find this document on The Black Vault at documents2.theblackvault.com. This record was declassified under the Automatic Declassification Program, released to the public on March fifth, two-thousand-four. It offers a glimpse into the methods and findings of the Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance, or C-O-M-O-R, as they assessed TACKLE missions over China. The document reads: MEMORANDUM FOR: The Special Group SUBJECT: Proposal for TACKLE Coverage of Northeast China One. The Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance in late May submitted to the United States Intelligence Board an evaluation of the four TACKLE missions which had been accomplished prior to that time toge