Sara Castro on the U.S.’s First Encounters with the Chinese Communist Party

Sara Castro is an Associate Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy and the author of Mission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II. The book chronicles the origins and fate of the first official contact between the U.S. government and the Chinese Communist Party: the so-called “Dixie Mission” to Yan’an by a small group of American military personnel, diplomats, and intelligence officers. Earlier in her career, Castro worked as an intelligen

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Sara Castro on the U.S.’s First Encounters with the Chinese Communist Party

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