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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.
TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 19 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 20 Sept. ;CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION - OPC (Cont'd) "To Bill. Ref Candle. Bad news important as good news. Report by phone. Wil be in Taipei. (signed) 74." Two points are raised by CIA Taipei. in the second cable: For whom does she work? Does she lack responsibility and security. in handling messages? Some messages for BGKABQUE could be delivered to the wrong recipient. CIA Taipei is ceasing to use the secretary entirely and has recommended full investigation. OSO The Chief Operations Officer of CIC/Trieste conferred with an unidentified official at Headquarters of the Yugoslav Ministry of the Interior in Ljubljana on 12 September and proposed exchange of information on Soviet satellite countries with Yugoslav Intelligence. 00 Trieste is being instructed to point out to 0-2 .THJST that uncoordinated activity of this kind is outside the jurisdiction and competence of CIC and should be discontinued. An 080 representative reviewed the case'of two recent high- level Czech defectors with the Czechoslovakian Desk of State Depart- ment, emphasizing that its operational aspects continue to require their careful handling but adding that OSO would nevertheless make them available for special interrogation by Mr. Schnee of the U.S. Embassy in Prague. - Rear Admiral Henry B. Garrett, Senior Military Attache in Formosa, i$ returning to Washington on temporary duty for reassignment. Since he was extensively briefed by-Adiral Hillenkoetter before leaving for Taipei, Admiral Garrett may call on the DCI. (CONTINUED) COPY # _ OF 5. TOP SECRET
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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.