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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 DIRECTOR'S LOG 'TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, Sept. - 8:30 AM, Sept. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO A purported member of the Yugoslav Consulate in Duesseldorf, Germany, has approached ZIPPER directly with an offer to exchange Yugoslav intelligence on Soviet satellites for data on Sovzona Germany order of battle. The matter is being studied. ZIPPER Has dropped a double agent operation against Soviet Intelligence as too cumbersome to justify its dubious value. Since one of the two ZIPPER sources involved is a former British agent, the British had asked to clear all buildup material. OPC The balloon launchings recently conducted from a site near Munich by the CIA-controlled Crusade for-Freedom in conjunction with seven other organizations carried 10,000,000 leaflets into. Czechoslovakia and 700,000 into Poland. The CIA-controlled Badio Free Europe gave close support to the operation in its broadcasts. The launchings were well-managed and meteorological advice excellent. World press and radio coverage was extensive. Reports from behind the Iron Curtain, from recent defectors and sources considered reliable, indicate' effective distribution in Czechoslovakia. Leaflets were showered in great numbers on Prague and on the entire surrounding area. No reports have been received on launchings into Poland. Radio Moscow and the Prague government reacted strongly. A State Department source reports that one of 'the passangers on the Czech train which made a break for freedom on 11 September said his decision to escape was largely influenced by FE broadcasts and the balloon-borne leaflets. In a recent telegram TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # _L OF 5. SEP 18 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.