In 1958, Ray Cline was chief of the CIA's Office of National Estimates and of its Taiwan station. In his interview conducted for War and Peace in the Nuclear Age: "A Bigger Bang for the Buck," Cline discusses the history, beginning, and challenges of systematic, coordinated intelligence gathering to collect hard data, particularly on the Soviet Union's existing and projected weapons systems. He recalls how he pieced together evidence that the relationship between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China had begun to fray badly, and long before many intelligence officers and U.S. policymakers could accept the idea of a schism.
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