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The Central Intelligence Agency issued this Central Intelligence Bulletin on 17 February 1960. The daily brief was distributed to the President and senior officials, and it covers world political and military developments. Items include Khrushchev's formula for two separate German peace treaties, a Communist attack on a Nationalist air patrol over the Taiwan Strait, and Israel's boycott of a UN armistice meeting. It also covers anxiety over Belgian Congo independence, an Iraqi cabinet shake-up, Cuban-Soviet ties and a Soviet nuclear test detection proposal. It contains no UFO material.
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Approved for Release: 2020/03/13 C03173539 fi ur QDLRD 1 Taiwan Strait Air Clash fin attack on a routine Nationalist air patrol by Commu- nist jet -fighters over the Taiwan Strait near the China mainland on 16 Februaryl I Sidewinder air-to-air missiles were carried by the National- ist aircraftl A . [approximately 18/ Communist aircraft were in the areaof the engagement, although only _four of these were seen by the four F-86 pilots of the Nationalist patrol... One of the Nationalist air- craft attempted to fire Sidewinders but was unable to because of malfunctions; another fired two, but missed. _An F-86 was slightly damaged by enemy fire and one of the Communists ap- _ peared to have been hit, but apparently no aircraft were destroyedj @_he large number of Communist flights over the Chinmens and over the Taiwan Strait, along with the 16 February battle, suggests that the Communists now feel that they can cope with air-to-air missiles, and hence are less reluctant to engage the Nationalist F-86$]-‘_ Elie Nationalists fly this route twice daily, and this patrol appeared to be normal in every respect. The Chinese National- ists have carefully observed their pledge to American officials on Taiwan to avoid any provocative actions, and probably will continue to exercise restraint as long as they believe unilateral action would hurt relations with the United Statglj .9 L51; a recent briefing for Hong Kong Communist newspaper= men, a Communist editor stated Peiping's current line is to "carefully refrain" from creating military tension in the strait because the Communists feel this might increase US influence ‘ on Taiwan to the detriment of "peaceful liberatiQn."/ 17 Feb 60 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 3 Approved for Release: 2020/03/13 C03173539
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 14 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.