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Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 53 …with troops from Fort Eustis. The OSO Registry processed 2,912 outgoing pouch items during the…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
'TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 25 Sept. 8:30 AM,26 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
00 Cont'd.
meet today with Governor Lodge of Conn., with whom the former
is closely acquainted, and seek his aid in resolving the
situation.
In his present mental state, Samarin's release would be
unfortunate in its possible propaganda iiplications. He is
the former Soviet teacher who refused to return to the Soviet
Union in 1948, has been insane for upward of a year, and was
the subject of an item in this report.of 20 Sept. 1951, dealing
with a letter which he had attempted'to send GronWko.
At 1135 this date, we were notified that Samarin had
been reported missing at the hospital 15 minutes before.
We have a representative at the Tolstoy Foundation in N.Y.,
which in turn is in direct touch with ithe hospital; we
notified the FBI, suggesting that Samarin be picked up if he
- should approach a Sovieb diplomatic installation; we alerted
the Army Language School in ionterey, Calif., to notify us
at once if Samarin attempted to get in touch with his wife
there; and we notified other government agencies to whom the
matter is of concern. At 13h5 we were notified that Samarin
had been apprehended, still in Hartford, and returned to
the hospital. Those who had been advised of his dis-
appearance were notified of his return.
OPC
The Fighting Group Against Inhumanity, a German organization
covertly sponsored by CIA, has conducted 2 small-scale
"administrative sabotage" operations 'against the East German
Government. A circular letter .was sent to all finance and
main customs officers of Land Brandenburg, purporting to
come from the main office, which denounced the Deputy-Chief of the
Land Finance Ministry, alleging that he 'had been dismissed from his
office as an agent of the "Western Imperialists." A classified circular,
purporting to originate within the Finance Ministry of the East German
Republic, instructed all branches to refrain for a month from collection
TOP SECRET of back texes .ad to postpone any compulsory
auctions. COPY n L OF 5. - SEP 25 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.