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 .TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 11 Sept.- 8:30 AM,12 Sept. CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION 050 (Con't) FBI representatives discussed FBI interest in U.S. outlets of the ZAKO paper mill in Austria. The FBI will make an effort to obtain information on ZAKO sub-sources overseas through Tiber Eckhardt, FBI contact in the U.S. Colonel Bobert A. Schow told Mr. Thayer in Paris that "his chiefs are very well satisfied" with summary reports of current intelligence which OS9 submits to him through the Paris Station for Generals Eisenhower and Oruenther. Four Zipper officers, the second group to visit the U.S., arrived in New York on 9 September. They will be escorted on a trip to the West Coast, returning to Washington on 23 September. OPC For breaches of security and publicized marital difficulties, Philip Chadwick, a staff agent handling communications at CIA's Saipan paramilitary training base, has been ordered to return to Washington.- A contract was signed yesterday with A.D., Ring & Co., a radio engineering concern, for the rehabilitation of a radio transmitter off Formosa which will be used to beamt propaganda broadcasts to Red China. The Chinese Nationalist Air Force has dropped 6,000 leaflets in a CIA-directed operation over Chang Chou on the Chinese Mainland. A Nationalist guerrilla contact team in the vicinity has reported the local population "very excited" by the drop. On 9 September, a successful two-way radio contact was TOP SECRET (CONTINUED). COPY # OF 5- SEP 111951
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.