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 SECURITY INFORMATIO0 DIRECTOR'S LOG 4TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,9 Nov. - 8:30 AM,10 Nov. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT 1f ACTION OSO Plans have been made to arrest some SO' lending Greek US Ambassador Communists in the Athens area on 12 Nov with simultaneous Peurifoy, informed raids on 2 clandestine radio transmitters. Greek by OSO/Athens, ap- Security officials are acting with the approval of proves the action & the Ministers of National Defense and'Interior, but volunteered support the Prime Minister will not be briefed until the if needed. time of the arrests. A professional arms dealer known to the US Naval At- The proposal is tache in Paris has offered to furnish info making being examined. possible the interception and confiscation of a shipment - of war material from Europe to Comunj.st China in return for 25% of the value of the cargo, if Athe operation is successful. The Naval Attache believes that the dealer, having already received payment, hdes in this way to collect again. Lt. Col. Juan Dominguez Catalan has.replaced"Lt. Col. Antonio Cores Fernandez-Canete, Chief of the information Service (intelligence collection organ) of. the Spanish Gen. Directorate of Security (DOS). This shift is part of a reshuffle of DGS personnel following the appointment last August of Brig..Gen. Rafael Hierro Martinez as Director. Its bearing upon the currently developing CIA liaison with.Spanish Intelligence cannot yet be evaluated. - By memo to .the Asst. Sec'y of State for European Affairs, the Mr. Parangosky US Political Advisor in Trieste has highly commended Mr. & Mr. Lifschultz Burton B. Lifschultz, former Chief, OSO/Trieste, and Mr. John are being in- Farangosky, OSO officer under State cgver in Trieste. formed through Mr. Lifschultz is now attending the Nat'1 War College as channels. a representative of CIA. (CONTINUED) COPY # OF 5. TOP SECRET *
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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.