Today, we examine a Central Intelligence Agency mission summary from January

Declassified. Today, we examine a Central Intelligence Agency mission summary from January fourth, nineteen-sixty-three, detailing aerial reconnaissance failures over China and North Vietnam. This declassified record is available at archive.org, sourced from The Black Vault. This document was released under the Freedom of Information Act by the Central Intelligence Agency, with a declassification date of January twenty-fourth, two thousand three. The release authority was R D P sixty-three dash zero zero three thirteen A zero zero zero five zero zero zero four zero zero zero two dash one. The document, titled "Mission Summary," is a memorandum for the Assistant Deputy Director, Research, signed by Jack C. Ledford, Colonel, Operations Officer, Special Activities. It begins: "One. Mission G R C one hundred thirty-three, scheduled for the Szechwan Basin, took off January twenty-second, zero zero zero zero Zulu, and landed January twenty-third, zero five two zero Zulu. The mission aborted