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 - - Noted i 0DC' DIRECTOR'S LOG ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 3 Oct. - 8:30 AM, 4 Oct. OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO The German Internal Security Service has discovered a penetration of the Government Printing Office in Bonn through which sensitive official documents have been furnished to an unknown intelligence service and to the Genzan Social Democratic Party. Timely reporting of the development by an OSO penetration agent has enabled OSO to forestall-compromise by turning over to the German Service one batch of the documents recently offered for inspection. Although the 030 operation appears to be in the clear, the involvement of 'the German Social Democratic Party through the secretary of its leader, Kurt Schumacher, may precipitate-a scandal. A British Secret Service agent in charge of the British stay- behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may be turned over to CIA for financial reasons. OSO infers that the British may ask CIA aid in supporting it. The Belgian Minister of Justice is considering legislative measures to protect the Belgian Security Service from further intrusion by other government agencies. He has asked for information on U.S. practices for the protection of intelligence files. General J. Lawtn Collins il planning a purely personal visit in Stockholm 8-10 October with his daughter, the wife of an OSO Station member. The Embassy and the Army Attache have cleared with the Foreign Office and are atterpting to minimize the official reception to avoid possible misinterpretation of the visit. Dr. Thede Palm, Chief of the Swedish Intelligence Service, is willing to discuss all CIA-proposed topics during his visit to Washington but is unwilling to comment beforehand on the agenda. TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # _ OF 5. OCT 3 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.