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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RECEEVEDR'S LO polTIOND~ ATE OF DA8:30 AM,1 Oct - 8:30 AM, 2 Oct MTF DATE CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC Intelligence furnished by a CIA-controlled guerrilla force in North Korea enabled the Fifth~Air Force to bomb and strafe a concentration of enemy troopa in the Kwesangbong area of Korea on 23 September. A CIA agent who flew in one of the planes as an observer reported .excellent:.results and secondary explosions. - The Dalai Lama of Tibet has responded to the State Department message conveyed to him in. July by his elder brother offering covert US assistance to maintain the autonomy of Tibet. The response expressed deep regret that the Dalai Lama was unable.to take immediate advantage of the US offer. The Dalai Lama said that he was forced by circumstances and the needs of his people to return to Lhasa but hoped that the US would not lose confidence in him and would continue to be friendly. OPC's two principal agents in Iran report the receipt of a message from a source inside the Tudeh Party on 25 September in- forming them that the Provincial Coraittee of the Tudeh Party has advised Tudeh cells to be ready for action and to stand by for in- structions to "get to work". The source did not know what."work" meant, but believed it meant revolution or major civil disturbance. The field cautions that the report is not entirely clear and states that no information on a planned Communist-inspired revolution- has been received from embassy or other CIA sources. The field comments, however, that regardless of the-validity of the report it appears evident that increased Tudeh Party ;activity is imminent. US officials in Teheran have been infored of the report. . At headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution channels. COPY # of 5. TOP SECRET 0CT 1 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.