Today, Declassified presents a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum

Today, Declassified presents a Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from January seventh, nineteen-sixty-three, regarding proposed U-2 reconnaissance over North Vietnam and South China. This document offers insight into early Cold War intelligence-gathering priorities. You can find this record at documents2.theblackvault.com. This document was released by the Central Intelligence Agency under FOIA case number C-2009-0063, declassified on December fifth, two-thousand-one, under the authority of the Automatic Declassification Program. It remains a raw historical record. The document, titled "Memorandum For: Director of Central Intelligence, Subject: Request for Additional Coverage of North Vietnam and South China," states: "One. This paper contains a recommendation in paragraph six. Two. At its meeting on January fourth, the Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance reviewed the need for Far Eastern U-2 reconnaissance, account being taken of the report that a repeat of the Szechwan Basin ha