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.
“Mission Control”8 pages
TOP SECRET
SECURITY kOiIN 1
DIREC~t LAG,
D3ATEOS DATE- 8:30 AM,29 Dec .am'
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DOCUMENT RECE D. FROM' To SUBJECT / ACTION
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Lt .Gen lGrigorop s,'0hief of the-'ee1a2sational In acc e wth a pre-
Defense General Staff, saqned an orde pn 19 Dec. viously cou se of
appointing Brigadier Christodoulos perogiannis to be action, OS Athens is dis- {
Director of the Directorate of Int 1lgence Sgrvices cussing this development with
effective 5 January 1952. This, ian efect, relieves the US Ambasd'er in an efforb
the present incumbent, Brigadier :Ikolopoulo, whp has to remedyia' ituation which-
-P- be4 exteaemely cooperative witfri.)SO/Athens auring- the could be disastrous tg op
past years Brigadier regannas, who is an officer, and OPC plans and operatlons
of the Efigineer Corps,.is practically unknown in intel in Greece..
- ligence circles This action of Gri oiulos is
interpreted by a iable high-level tary source
p direct blow roTUS elenents in 'TAX Greek Arn '.
A British Secret Set e offi P inforned OSp/Lon
that could not co on -ech charges of
againsrtt British Se diSecreta n Prague
stenographir assistant utigthe ha 3tpdied, a repo
the affair. (A U.*. State Dept query to the British
as being handleo on the service leve1- at the suggestion
of' the British Foreign Office.) OSO knows that the
Second Secretary, Robert Neil Gardner, attended a British
Secret Service training course in special operations in
19i9. -
The 00 Chief of Station, Vienna, has been confidentially
nformed by the Counselor of embassy in Vienna that the:-
d.S. High Comissioner for Austria, Ambassador Donnelly
will replace Mr. ,John J McCloy as High Coriissioner for
Germany. No date was mentioned. ,
OSO representatives briefed Mr Edward Barrett and Mr. Wallace
Barber of State on official Czechoslovakian documents leading
up to the a-rest of William Oatis. State will now decide whether
to publish these documents, made available to the purpose by
OSO, to counter recent Soviet and Satellite charges of US espionage.
TP SECRET)- (CONTINUED)' 27 DECEMBER 195$01 1 of..,.: Not linked to a story yet.
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