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.
“Cairo”8 pages
TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,4 sept. - 8:30 AM, Set. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC CIA agent Robert Staton, reported in a generally depressed condition after suffering minor injuries in a jeep accident on Formosa on 26 August, arrived in Pittsburgh, the head- quarters of his ostensible employer, on 2 Sept. He reached Washington on 4 Sept. for examination by CIA medical officials. Doctors found Staton's condition and mental outlook improved before his departure from Taipei and he was permitted, therefore, to travel alone. CIA Frankfort reports that Joseph W. Reidy, a staff officer engaged in German based phases of operations against Albania, has suffered a physical collapse from overwork. He must take a long rest and will be out of action indefinitely. His duties have been re-assigned. CIA controlled fishing vessels based at Hoe-do Island, off the Korean coast, recently sank a Chinese fishing boat and captured 2 Chinese and 1 North Korean vessel of the same type. 6 prisoners were captured and brought back to Hoe-do. Sate Dept. has authorized CIA to attempt the sabotage of a Chinese Communist owmed merchant vessel, either in Manila or Bangkok, using facsimile packages inserted in the cargol This operation is to be undertaken to determine the feasibility of the technique prior to granting policy clearance for sabotage operations against Chinese Communist vessels outside of Chinese Communist waters generally. State Dept. has authorized.lights over the Chinese mainland by CAT aircraft when they are supplying guerrilla unite. State Dept. has authorized temporary continuance of clandestine support to the forces of Li Hi. Support must be in the form of currency to be passed to Li Mi's representatives within TOP SECRET (CONTINUD) COY i O 5. A
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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.