CIA: From Declassified, this is your audio briefing.

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From Declassified, this is your audio briefing. Today, we examine a declassified intelligence memorandum concerning a conference with Major General Claire L. Chennault (Retired) on the state of China. This document, dated November sixteenth, nineteen forty-nine, offers a snapshot of U.S. intelligence assessments during a pivotal moment in the Chinese Civil War. You can find this document at archive.org/download/us-china-intel-CI00295/CI00295_djvu.txt. This memorandum was originally marked "Secret" and was released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act by the United States government. Its declassification provides insight into the information shaping U.S. policy and strategic thinking regarding China in the late nineteen-forties. The document opens as an inter-office memorandum, marked "For use within G-2 only," from Colonel Fortier to General Willoughby, dated November sixteenth, nineteen forty-nine, concerning a "Chennault Conference." It states: "Submitted for your infor

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