27 March 1959 · Declassified typewritten memorandum
Joint CIA-GRC Resistance Program
Central Intelligence Agency
Why it matters
The memorandum shows that American knowledge of the People’s Republic was not produced by detached observation alone. It translates communes, disaffection, and resistance into a planning problem, joining the frame of an unstable Communist mainland to the possibility of intervention.
- Publication
- Memorandum for Designated Representatives Under NSC 5412/2
- Holding institution
- National Archives and Records Administration, Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel
- Shelfmark
- ISCAP Appeal 2018-086, Document 4
Central Intelligence Agency. Joint CIA-GRC Resistance Program, 27 March 1959. Memorandum for Designated Representatives Under NSC 5412/2. National Archives, ISCAP Appeal 2018-086, Document 4.