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 N DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM,1 2 Sept. 8:30 AM,13 Sept. TE OF DATE - 1CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION 00 The sealed Trotsky papers held by the Harvard Corporation have been opened by arrangement between the Corporation and the Boston Office of Contact Division. A preliminary examination - indicates that there are some 30,000 documents exclusive of printed matter. A sampling of about 1,500 documents gives information about people not previously known to be close to Trotsky. The entire lot is considered by Harvard authorities to be of great value. Dr. Clyde Kluckhohn has asked for a research assistant to aid him in the examination of the documents. Contact Division is asking both OSO and OPC to suggest qualified candidates. OSO The team of Ukrainian Partisan agents dispatched last May to establish communication with the Ukrainian underground movement reported by Radio that MVD forces have cut it off from underground headquarters and requested, in view of the extremely difficult position of the resistance elements, that no further airdrops be made this year. Mr. William Dunham, head of the State Department Spanish desk, yesterday informed OSO that Ambassador to Spain Stanton Griffis will be available in Washington on 13 or 1n September. Mr. Dunham implied that the DCI might wish to take the opportunity to talk with Mr. Griffis. OPC Further debriefing of the six-man OPC-controlled Albanian agent team which crossed the border into Greece on 3 Sept. has revealed that the Communist leader of the Albanian (CONTINUED) COPY # .L OF 5. SEP 12 1951TOP SECRET
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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.