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.
“The Advance”9 pages
TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG ;TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 24 Sept. 8:30 AM, 25 Sept. CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO Agents of the Belgian Department of Justice have arrested the staff of the Belgian State Security office in Charleroi and impounded its files, including ide'ntities .of informants. CIA and British representatives are taking steps to safe- guard information on tripartite operations in Belgium conducted jointly with the State Security organization headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security has been a close collaborator of CIA since the end of the war. No reason has been given for the current investigation. Chief FDM/OSO has returned from a month's survey of OSO installations and operations in Central Europe. He indicates that the pressing problems in this area are the need for build-up of manpower assigned to Czech and Polish operations, a new approach to CTA currency procurement replacing present dependence on the Bern Station under now impractical condi- tions, and administrative handling of the take-over of personnel from the HICOG Office of Intelligence and other organizations in Germany. Swedish State Police forcibly removed from a Polish collier docked in Stockholm the ship's cook, whom the crew had confined on learning of his intention to defect. A messboy also disappeared from the ship during the proceedings. The engineer and dispatcher' of the "Ereedom Train" which entered U.S. Zone/Germany on 10 Sept. have furnished information being used to mount an OSO operation directed at evacuating to Germany the Director General of Czechoslovakian railroads. In addition to information of positive intelligence value, the latter is said to have. secured, in preparation for defection, a list of 200 Czech intelligence agents operating in the U.S. Zone. - (CONTINUED) - G 95- (TOPSECRET
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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.