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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DIRECTOR'S LOG - A.TEOF DATE 8:30 AM, 17 Septe- 8:30 AM, 18 Sept- )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION Mr. William Huie, Editor of the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported how coordinate Mr. Forrestal employed a $50,000 "bribe$ to help settle the action with French railway strike in 1947. Mr. Huie notes that: DD/P and DD/A. a. This incident has. been omitted from the Forrestal. papers now being published by the Herald-Tribune Syndicate. b. This money was carried to France by a Naval intelli- gence agent and Admiral Hillenkoetter arranged to make these contributions deductible. c. Le Figaro in Paris has purchased rights to the Forrestal papers and is disappointed about the omission of the above "bribe". Huie has requested us to either confirm or deny this story. OSO A Soviet defector recruited in Germany and trained as a W/T agent in Japan parachuted into the USSR near Khabarovsk on 15 September from a sterilized B-26 manned by a Japanese agent-crew. No ground reaction was reported. Mr. Daniel D. Hunter, former OSO officer being reemployed in Paris by CIA, leaves for London today to be briefed by Colonel Bette in preparation for duty as CIA member of the Secretariat of the SHAPE Clandestine Committee. OPC The Chinese Nationalist Air Force dzopped 10,000 leaflets on Ch'uang Chou on 10 September. in another CIA-directed psychological warfare operation against southern Etkienprovince. (CONTINUED) COPY # _L_ OF 5. SEP 17 1951 TOP SECRET
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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.