On December thirteenth, nineteen-sixty-two, a Central Intelligence Agency

On December thirteenth, nineteen-sixty-two, a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and the Deputy Director for Research discussed the approval system for BOW TIE missions over the Taiwan Strait. This document is archived at The Black Vault. This record, a two-page memorandum, was approved for release on January ninth, two-thousand-two, under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency's declassification review program. The document states: "MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence VIA: Deputy Director (Research) SUBJECT: Approval System for BOW TIE Missions (Taiwan Strait). I. [redacted] [redacted] felt it desirable to alert the Director to the fact that at the Special Group on Thursday, December thirteenth, the J-R-C would be requesting approval for C-I-N-C-P-A-C to execute a specified number of BOW TIE missions over the Taiwan Strait program without referral in each case to the D-D-I or Special Group. In answer to my qu