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 '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.