Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file is a compilation of Top Secret Director's Log entries from September and December 1951. The entries are daily reports from CIA offices such as OSO, OPC and OO on covert operations and intelligence matters. They cover leaflet drops over mainland China, agent teams sent into Albania and Bulgaria, plans for defector detention centers in Panama, liaison with British, French and Spanish services, and the opening of the Trotsky papers at Harvard. None of the entries mentions UFOs.
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* TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 25 Oct.- 8:30 AM,26 Oct. CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO Contld. In an effort to improve political reporting in Indochina, the First Secretary of the US Legation inSaigoa has requested State Dept. permission to- establish .a covert 'relationship with the Chief of French Intelligence in that area. CIA opposes development of such a relationship as prejudicial to the impending establishment of formal CIA-French Intelligence liaison in Indochina. The State Dept. has accepted the CIA' view and will so instruct the Legation. Dutch Internal Security is secretly sending the recently- defected Czech Commercial Counsellor in The Hague to Canada and will publicize his defection on 30 October. His evidence will be used to crack down on firms engaged in illegal East- West trade and publication of the fact that the Czech ;ilitary Attache; in Brussels was long penetrated by'a Dutch-Belgian double-agent operation will, the Dutct believe, "set back Czech espionage in the Lowlands at least a year." - The Senior Representative in Paris reports that Pierre Boursicot, Chief of the French Secret Service, has told the French. Prime Minister that he hopes to stay in office 10 years to accomplish his program. This contradicts a previous reliable report, supported by rumors in the Frencp Service, that Boursicot would leave .his post within a few months. M. Robert Hirsch, Director of the: French Surete Nationale, will arrive in Washington on 6 November with his subordinate, Auguste - Sauzon, Chief of the Soviet Section; Surveillance du Territoire, for a ten-day visit, during which they will confer with CIA and FBI officers. Air Commodore James A. Easton, Asst. Chief of the British Secret Service, offered to discuss mutual problems with CIA representatives in Hongkong, Singapore, and Tokyo during his- trip around the world beginning 5 Novemb'e COPY # iOF 5. t
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.