Central Intelligence Agency
The Nixon Collection: CIA support for the 1972 presidential trip to China
Collection · written February 1972 · released February 2022
Why this matters
Eight documents (331 pages) that CIA prepared for Nixon and Kissinger before the February 1972 trip: city guides to Peking, Shanghai and Hangzhou, an 82-page atlas of the PRC, and leadership profiles of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. The release includes a profile of Lin Biao written for a trip he never saw; he died in a plane crash five months earlier. The atlas was released publicly for the first time in fifty years.
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Central Intelligence Agency. "The Nixon Collection: CIA support for the 1972 presidential trip to China." February 1972. Released February 2022. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/nixon-collection (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0005).
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