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 SEC~RET SECURITYI9FORMATION Rat 0 SW DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM,6 Dec. - 8:30 AM,7 Dec. ,TE OF DATE CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO. SUBJECT ACTION OSO A British Secret Service officer in London stated that Conservative sensitivity to Labor campaign charges of "warmongering" is a political factor which has led to the foreign policy objectives recently defined by Foreign Secretary Eden as (a) reduction of the tempera- ture of international debate and (b) solution of limited, specific problems to build .a mosaic of lasting peace. This officer indicated his personal concern lest this policy curtail or preclude the more aggressive Secret Service operations, air dispatch of agents ii.particular, as involving too great a risk of adverse,;jblicity at home in the event of a documented Soviet or Satellite. charge of internal interference. Recognizing CIA's greater capabilities, responsible Greek officials have fully agreed to CIA exploitation of all foreign leads yielded by current operations against the Greek. Communist Party. This makes possible coordinated and effective exploitation of the international ramifications of the case. FBI liaison representatives in France reported to OSO/Paris that they now receive copies of all FBI requests to CIA for information from official French sources and, because : of French delay in acting. on CIA requests, ai-e sometimes able to get faster replies through their own liaison channels. They agree that this procedure is unso'jnd,; however, and will discuss such cases with OSO/Paris befors taking independent action. An agent of OSO/Berlin has returned from a mission in The ease with which the Poland during which he recruited 8 sub-agents, including agent performed his mis- a cross-border guide, a radio operator, and an employee sion engenders some of.the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and established a . skepticism, requiring re- safehouse and several letterdrops. assessment of his bona TOP SECRET . (CONT-.UED) .:a > fideg DEC 6 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.