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.
“Cooper”27 pages
TOP SECRET - DIRECTOR'S LOG oh 8:30 AM,8 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 9 Nov. I'EOF DATE JUMENTRECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO The Swiss have arrested an agent who ddits ito having operated against Swiss laboratories and itidustries in the employ of Commander John McMullen, forer Asst. U.S. Naval Attache in Bern, who studied at the Federal. Technical Institute in Zurich.. Swiss Military Intelligence reports that the agent will probably not be prosecuted, since McMullen is no longer in Switzerland. McMullen' s activities are considered reprehensible, however, and Swiss laboratories are being warned against U.S. students. - 7 Italian Intelligence officers, keysmen in the Italian stay- behind program, will receive short individual orientation courses in the United Kingdom this month.: Although the British have requested absolute secreo on tihis instruction, OSO has been informed in confidence by repponsible officials- of the Combined Italian Intelligene Service. Limited Training Division facilities make it'presently impossible for OSO to offer similar assistance -to the Italians. Stressing the extreme delicacy of the matter, the Chief of> Dutch Foreign Intelligence has requested CIA assistance in removing from Vienna to Holland a quantity of Dutch stocks and. bonds lost or stolen during the war and worth many millions of guilders. The problem is being examined. Conversations with M. Robert Hirsch of the French Surete Nationale concluded yesterday with agreement on exchange of reports on illegal Communist activities with CIA. Hirsch reported that he refuses to pay an alleged deviationist group of French Communists for information. He advised also that intelligence coverage of France under a Soviet occupation .is being studied with the French Secret Service. Gen. Endre Zako, Hungarian leader in exile and key f igure:n the fabrication of intelligence information on Central Europe, has TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION (CONTINUED) COPY # . OF 5.
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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.