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 INFOMATION / DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 A 20 Nov. 8:30 A 21 Nov. . ATE OF DATE )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO Documents captured in the raid on two clandestine Communist radios in Athens are expected to contain -evidence enabling the Greek Government to close down two Communist-controlled newspapers and to convict the editor of a Communist-front weekly of espionage. Analysis of this material will also be of considerable counterespionage value in disclosing Greek Communist connections in other parts of Europe. The Greek Minister of Interior has asked OSO/Athens for information on the.organization and cperation of the U.S. Civil Service loyalty program with a view to instituting a more impartial systertof loyalty review in Greece. U. S. Embassy/Athens has asked -the Chief, OSO/Athens to maintain close contati ith the Minister, who also desires U. S. advice on current .security programs. Ambassador Butterworth, discussing the assignment of Although the Ambassa-. - a CIA Senior Representative in Sweden under Navy. dor appears willing to cover, objected to using other than Foreign Service yield to a strong cover for this assignment as jeopardizing service- desire of DCI and DD/P attache positions and over-expanding an. already large... senior 030 and OPC military staff. (This runs counter to State desire officers have recom- in Washington to develop CIA cover away from Foreign mended that CIA defer Service designations.) The Ambassador also objected to his preference for to the assignment of an additional CIA staff member .Foreign Service cover without corresponding recall of a junior- officer. in this ase while aski- ing him to accept an increase of one in the present CIA staff. Prince Bernhardt has outlined to Chief, 00/The Hague, - TOP SECRET -(CONTINUED) - 20 1951 SECU RmTY INFOW4ATION Co'py/of V
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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.