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 LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,14 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 15 Sept. ICUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC (Cont'd) On a scouting mission to Shi Cheng Tao, the CIA-controlled Korean fishing vessel SEA DRAGON captured a Chinese fishing boat and its nine crew members five miles off shore on 6 September. Handbills opposing the Japanese peace treaty, were distri- buted by Communists in Tokyo on 5 September. As a retaliatory measure, CIA prepared leaflets that closely resembled them in form and content but altered so as to make their Communist origin more obvious and nauseating to the Japanese. The new leaflets were distributed under cover of darkness in Tokyo and beach resort areas. The Chinese Nationalist Air Force dropped 10,000 leaflets in a CIA-directed operation on 4 September over Shihma in southern Fukien province, the area against which..TgNTACLE NO.1 of guerrilla warfare operation OCTOPUS is directed..:' The Chinese Communists have been reported rushing collectors to gather the leaflets dropped and issuing orders to the people not to read them. This week's editions .of LIFE and TIME publicized-:a map of slave labor camps in the USSR prepared by the CIA-supported Free Trade Union Committee of the American Federation of Labor. The map caused an incident at the San Francisco conference when a copy was handed to Soviet delegate Gromyko. Several hundred copies were posted on Berlin walls during August as part of CIA-supported efforts to counteract the Communists-dominated rally of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. nD/A The Comproller's office completed the transfer of $10,000,000 to MDAP funds this date. The funds will be allocated to OPC for Projects BGMARQJE AND HIERLIN. This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program for jransfer to CIA during this fiscal year. TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # OOF $ SEP 14 1951
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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.