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 IO00 8:30 AM, 28 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 29 Dec. TEOF DATE CUMENT RECEIVED FROM T0 SUBJECT ' .'ACTION OPC A three-man team will be sent into Albania overland to detern.ne the effect of the recent propaganda leaflet and supply drops in that country. This is aonersnot mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred the necessary information on the 4ffedtiveness of the - CIA drops. Two junks dispatched to rendezvous point to pick up communications teams bound for Chinese guerrillat columns,were seized by the Hong Kong police prior to contact, and towed to Hong Kong harbor on 22 J'ec. A thtrd junk the SS Hobe- and tedk aboard, ,indigenous agonts trained to couateract Communist it} tration. A prelimipary report iAdicates that the opdration was not compromised, although apparently the Bong Kong 'police Vere informed to an unknswn extent. CIA has successfuhr completed negotiations for the ex- clusive use of Fort Randolph, Canal Zone, 'as' a reception and rehabilitaton center for defectors and go agentsYwhenthe .usefulnesof such aliffstas -beq ted or ' . scourity considerations require such act' e p e of esta lishing suoh a center is to rebge'idv % control;the defectors under secure conditiond, to oz'ient,.' em tothe democratic way of life, and to provide duch language and vocational training as may be essential to their self- suppgrt in a&new environment, Upon completion of rehabilitation of the individuals, they will be disposed of by resettlembnt in foreign countries, principally in Latin America. 'The US Army will provide cover, and the activity will be known as the Army Civilian Rehabilitation Center. Communications Received: DD/P. (CONTINUED) COPY # OF 7.. TOP SECRET 'I' I. .
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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.