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.
“The Advance”9 pages
TOP SECRET -? L W SECURITY INFORMATION . DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM, CUMENT RECEIVED FROM To SUBJECT ACTION O05 Immediate deployment of the 560th Air Resupply and Since the above was Communications Wing as scheduled to Wheelus Field in ascertained unofficially Libya, where it was to have been used in support of an intensive effort is V CIA operations, has been deferred, if not cancelled being made to determine outright, apparently as a result of action taken on officially the facts of 19 Nov. by the Secy of State on a strong British the matter protest against the movement to Libya-at this time. Serious Interference with CIA plans will result. Quoting a reliable Chinese, the Department of State has reported that Robert W. McCann, a US businessman arrested in Tientsin by Chinese Communist authorities, is undergoing severe and intensive int rogation aimed at. establishing his involvement in espionagerin addition to their clear case against him on a charge of ;unauthorized export of capital. McCann, a covert 00, agent who was in- volved in certain Tientsin operations, is resisting interro- gation, but the informant believes he may crack under the pressure. He knows the identities of three CIA officers. A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been headquarters in -Verdun has reported his recruitment by an authorized to accept attache of the Hungarian Legation in Paris to secure US the French Security military documents for delivery to a clandestine courier. proposal to exploit the case jointly with the participation of U.S. CIC. (CONTINUED) - TOP SECRET NOV 21 1951
Not linked to a story yet.
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.