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 INFORMATION -CI DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM, 23 Nov. - 8:30 AM,24 Nov. . ATE OF DATE )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - - ACT'ON OSO. - The .Operations Section of the Swedish Air Force "is cultivating the Assistant Soviet "ir Attache in Stockholm with a view to inducing him to defect, although there has been no indication of susceptibility on his'part. However, the Swedish Air Force has requested the US Air Attache to furnish immediate air transportation if needed. OSO/ Stockholm is following the case through the US service attaches and attempting to deterine the relation-of Swedish 'Intelligence to the case with a .viev to influ- encing its course. Chief/NEA met with Mr. Edwin Iacke, newly-appointed Ambassador in charge of aid programs for the Arab States and Israel, to offer his assistance durin'g his say in the Middle East and to inforia of possible'need fir his cooperation in arranging aid to police and.security agencies in Middle Eastern countries. Mr. Locke was entirely co operative and requested that field contact with CIA be arranged for him. Quoting OSO/Addis Ababa, the US Ambassador- to Ethiopia has reported that revolutionary tendencies are growing daily. Information forwarded through OSO channels is somewhat less alarming. Although OSO/Addis Ababa has been reporting such trends for some time, the station predicts no revolu-- tionary action for at least a year. OSO has invited the Chief of Special Opertions, Duteh Internal Security Service, To Washington for 1 weeks of discussion and training beginning about 15 January 1952. He wishes to discuss his operational experience with 050 - specialists and intends to select training materials for the instruction of members of his own organization. (CONTIINUED) TOP SECRET - NOV 23 191* v".NOV 21951
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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.