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 ITE OF DATE 8:30 AM, IO Sept-- 8:30 AM, 11 Sept. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OS0 Photocopies of two official documents on Czech planning of the Oatis case have been recovered. Dissemination will be deferred pending receipt of the film itself. Detailed plans are being prepared for further operational exploitation of the two Czech defectors who furnished this material. An official of the Yugoslav Embassy in Paris, who has been conducting liaison with the French Communist Party, has defected through Mr. Charles Bohlen. OSO Paris is arranging for his interrogation in Oermany. Mrs. Antonio Riva, wife of an Italian executed for espionage by the Chinese Communists last month together with his associate, Yamguchi, has stated to the press in Hong Kong that her husband was innocent of espionage but Yamaguchi was "a very consistent informer for the successor to OSS". Yamaguchi was in fact an agent of the ESD #4lsorganization but has had no contact with CIe since the Communist occupation of Peiping. Colonel Barrett, USMA in Taipei, formerly USMA in Peiping, is reported seeking a meeting with Mrs. Riva. 050 believes it probable that Colonel Barrett recruited Yamaguchi, together with Riva. and others, in Peiping and will attempt to quash further publicity about the net. - The AD/SO arrived in Tokyo on 8 September. OPC Chinese Third Force Leader, Chang Fa Kwei, has reason to believe that there is a Communist plant among the second class of students now at CIA's Saipan para-military training base. Chang does not know the suspect's name but knows him to have been recruited by Wu Shao Ming who .saw him depart from Tokyo Airport. Chang believes the suspect was sent from the Ta Hwa Watch Company TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # L OF 5- SEP 10 1951
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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.