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 4TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 4 Sept. 8:30 AM,5 Sept. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC Cont'd. Thailand who will have complete responsibility for the purchase and delivery of food to those Li Mi units re- maining in Burma. State Dept. will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi situation to the UN. Within the UN, the US will endeavor to delay decision on the matter until the Japanese Peace Treaty is signed. Any suggestions re- garding the possibility of interning Li Mi's troups in Thailand or elsewhere, or the possibility of their re- patriation to Formosa, will be raised by UN members other than the US. A covert CIA agent has been appointed Special 4ssistant' to Republic of Korea President Rhee. This agent has been instrumental in the change of attitude of the ROK Government toward the US Government. It is anticipated that with careful control this agent will develop into an outstanding deep- cover agent in the Far East. CIA has received for evaluation the detailed specifications on a new sub-machine gun presently under development by the Belgian Army. The reported characteristics of this weapon indicate it may have advantage over existing types used in clandestine warfare. A CIA agent in Paris reports he has seen evidence that the office of Cardinal Spellman has directed John McCloskey, Director of Catholic Welfare in Europe, to obtain information proving Irving Brown's "close connection with Harxist Socialist" movements in Europe. Brown, European representative of the AFofL, is the cut-out through which CIA advances funds for the support of various Western European labor unions. The CIA TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # L OF 5.
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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.