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 INFOfaWATION DIRECTOR'S LOG ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 18 Dec. - 8:30 AM,19 Dec. 2CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO -'SUBJECT _- ACTION OSO Cont'd. The State Dept. has reopened the question of a reply to If State decides that a Vishinsky's charge that US officials in Athens have used reply must be made, the an'"electrical torture device" in interrogating Greek statemirtwill be sub- Communists. State suggested that :we admit the use of mitted in draft for CIA the polygraph by Mr. Robert Driscoll, "an E&ibassy Attache", comment. and offer a demonstration to the UN committee. OSO does not object to this on security grounds'but--is of the opinion- that any admission will merely furnish opportunity for further Soviet charges. According to the German Chief of ZIPPER, Hans Olobke, Chancellor Adenauer's Assistant for Personnel,. is now convinced that the German counterpart of OPC should be placed under German Intelligence, not under' the. fufuxre Defense Ministry. The ZIPPER Chief himself firmlyf believes that activities of this type should be limited to subversion by clandestipe propaganda and that CIA should not discuss planning for resistance activities with the German Government. Although State Dept. must reply formally to ,the Rumanian note charging US sponsorship of the 2 (OSO-putch Intelligence) agents recently captured in Rumania, State-Has not yet decided. whether to ask CIA for any information it;'may have on the matter. - Gen. Umberto Broccoli, Chief of Italian Intelligence, has accepted CIA's invitation to come to the US on 14 January: for a two-week visit. x 18 DECEBER 1951 'COPY # OF 7. TOP 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.