Documents / FOIA release

/specialCollection/DCI/Smith FOIA/1951/1951-July to September/1951-09-01.pdf

Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 126 …William Witman, Chief of the India-Nepal desk, -at the Department on 1 Nov. to discuss…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG -
SECURITY INFORMATION
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,3 Nov. - 8:30 AM,5 Nov.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO-
A recent report on Communism in Pakistan received by OSO through liaison
with the Pakistan Intelligence Bureau has been given the highest possible
evaluation (A-l) by the Department of State.
Chief, NEA (OSO/OPC), called upon Mr. Graham, Ass't Sec'y of the Treasury
on 31 October, to discuss the possibility of.T-man cover for CIA personnel
abroad, specifically at Tangier, Beirut, Teheran, and Alexandria. Mr. Graham
was most receptive to the idea and has, arranged for Chief, NEA, to discuss the
matter in detail with the Commissioner of the Narcotics Branch of the Depart-
ment of the Treasury on 5 November.
An OSO representative met with Ambassador to Ceylon Joseph Satterthwaite and
Mr. William Witman, Chief of the India-Nepal desk, -at the Department on 1 Nov.
to discuss, at the Ambassadorts requestjoperational and security matters
relating to the recently opened OSO station at Colombo.
- 00-
Three Polish army privates, who defected to the-French in Berlin on 20 Oct.,
have arrived at the Defector Reception Center (Germany), and are undergoing
preliminary interrogation.
OSI - ,~
Reference is made to the log item of 31 Oct 51, covering a conversation
between Dr. Chadwell and Dr. Colby of AEC. Dr. Colby has reported that the
matter was discussed with Mr. Gordon Dean. Mr. Dean feels there is no need
of the suggested conversation between DDCI, AD/SI and Dr. Colby, and a letter
has been prepared to this agency covering the Commission's position. This
letter should be received within the next few days.
TOP SECRET Copy #- 3 1951

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

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.