https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78-02771R000200090002-6.pdf
This doc gets quoted but the reference does not get cited!
It's claimed to be released in 1998 but it was released in 1999.
"National Cultural Development Under Communism"
Tartary” was a common term used since the Middle Ages to designate people living in the vast lands of Central Asia, terms such as “Greater Tartary” and “Lesser Tartary”, “Eastern Tartary” and “Western Tartary”, “Chinese Tartary” were used to distinguish the places where this people were settled. In Jesuit sources the terms “Eastern Tartars” and “Western Tartars” are usually referred to the “Manchus” and the “Mongols” respectively. In this paper the term “Tartary” will be used to refer both to the “Eastern Tartary” and “Western Tartary”.
ANTONUCCI, D. (2012). PEREIRA’S TRIP TO TARTARY IN 1685. History of Mathematical Sciences. doi:10.1142/9789814390446_0006
The army marched across the Gobi desert up to Kerulen river; then, the Emperor, due to a lack of food supplies decided to go back to Peking. The journey lasted four months
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