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 1, 8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM, ATE OF DATE OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC A final report has been received on the results of a successful. diversionary raid on the Hsailu Peninsula on 10 and 11 September by a Nationalist guerrilla element of CIA-directed TENTACLE No. 1. The element killed 40 Chinese. Communists and captured 18. It also captured 38 weapons and an assortment of documents, newspapers and stamps. Seven buildings were destroyed during the raid. The field is investigating a report that a South Korean Arny Lieutenant who participated, presumably unwittingly, in the recent Rame conference of the CIA-supported International Federation of World Veterans' Organizations may have . suspicions that the U.S. government -financed his activities and is contributing to the support of the Fiederation.,- Several thousand copies of a miniature edition of the National Committee for a Free Albania newspaper, SHQIPERIA, were air dropped over Albania on the night of 17 -,18 September. The miniature edition contained an article answering charges against the NCFA distributed by leaflet earlier this summer by the Yugoslav-controlled Albanian exile committee. No opposition was encountered during the operation, although the muzzle flashes of anti-aircraft guns we're observed at Tirana. NEWSWEEK devoted the cover and a special article in its 17 September issue to the activities of Radio Free Europe. From a second cable addressed to the OPC Chief of Station in Hong Kong by CIA Taipei with regard to Gen. Chennault's secretary, Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier, passed a message to BGMARJE headquarters which was obviously intended for another party. The message read: (CONTINUED) COPY # _ OF 5. TOP SECRET SEP - eI
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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.