CHINESE COMMUNIST REACTION TO (Classified) MISSION C325C, FLOWN 28 MAY 1965

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00597R000400020009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 28, 1965
• Content Type: BRIEF

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BRIEFING NOTES FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Chinese Communist Reaction
Flown 28 May 1965
Mission C325C,
1. Mission C325C was flown on 28 May, between Swatow
and Fu Chou, along the east China coast, opposite Taiwan.
Coincidentally, the entire route lay within the Chinese
Nationalist Air Defense Zone and the Chinese Nationalist
Air Force had fighters on combat air patrol over Taiwan
Strait at the time of the mission. Initial report from the
pilot states that he observed no unusual activity, stating
specifically he saw no intercept attempts. This is not
unusual, in view of the fact that of all of the TACKLE
missions, the pilot has witnessed a possible intercept
attempt on his mission aircraft on only two occasions.
2. The number of Chicom aircraft positioned at the
various airfields remains about the same as in the past,
except the movement of additional aircraft into Lungchi and
ossibl some high performance aircraft at the same airfield.
i appears tRat aircra were scrambled
against this mission from five different airfields. The
numbers and types of aircraft cannot be determined until
3. We anticipate that Canton,.Hsing Ning, Liencheng,
Fu Chou and Lungchi kept two fighters each on strip alert
and we expect that when all of the information is available
we will have noted at least ten fighters having reacted to
this mission. Due to the fact that this mission did not
penetrate the coastline to any depth, this reaction is about
what we would expect. Another interesting point is that
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