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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.
“Mission Control”8 pages
TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 26 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 27 Sept. DCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC In a dispatch from Athens, the NEW YORK TIES reported on 26 Sept., that "a new powerful radio station appears to. have been installed in Albania, broadcasting in the name of the National Committee for a Free Albania, a body agitating for the liberation of the Soviet Union's smallest and most isolated satellite." The broadcasts emanate from a CIA controlled clandestine transmitter located near Athens which. was previously reported to have begun broad- casting into Albania on 18 Sept. Apparently following a tip from Greek Intelligence, CIA Athens reports that Bulgarian border authorities have been alerted to expect the infiltration of an agent team and is preparing an ambush.: The team in question is identified as a CIA controlled group which had been operating in South Central Bulgaria but which crossed the border into Greece in July. The return of the team to-Bulgaria is being postponed.pending a field investigation of what appears to be a security compromise. ABulgarian defector to Turkey has reported seeing leaflets in the Tutrakan area of northeast Bulgaria which, from his description, were undoubtedly dropped during-a:CIA operation in March. CIA Frankfurt reports that during the Communist-dominated World Youth Festival in August, the East German authorities -- outside of Berlin were unable to cope with large-scale leaflet, poster and sticker operations mounted by the CIA-sponsored League of Free Lawyers because so many East Zone security police had been transferred to Berlin to control the crowds. TOP SECRET * (COlTIUED) COPY # _ OF 5- SEP 26 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.