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 1TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 13 Oct. - 8:30 AM, 1 Oct. )CUMENT RECEIVED PROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO A Bulgarian "refugee" recently arrived in Greece has confessed under interrogation that he is a Bulgarian Intelligence agent assigned to penetrate U.S. Intelligence by inviting re- cruitment, arranging for W/R training in Germany,, enticing U.S. agents into Bulgaria, and either luring a U.S. Intelligence officer to the Bulgarian border for capture or making possible the capture of a clandestine operational aircraft. Close interrogation is continuing. A meeting of U.S. and British officer called by CG, TRUST, to discuss the recent Yugoslav protest!.against intelligence activities recommended a general reply stating that illegal activities to the detriment of Yugoslavia would be prohibited - in the future but wordedso .as not to preclude operations across Yugoslavia against Soviet Satellites. The Political Advisor in Trieste is reporting the above to the State Dept. for decision. Meanwhile, after discussion between CIA and CIC in Washington, State Dept. has replied to the Yugoslav Ambassador that the U.S. does not engage in subversive activities in Yugoslavia. The Ambassador stated that he considered the matter closed. )DD/Preports from London that the British Secret Service still wishes to assign John Bruce Lockhartas its representative in . Washington. He believes, after discussion with senior CIA representatives in London, that this British move should.be countered by an expression of confidence in M.A.C. Silverwood- Cope, the present liaison. officer in Washington, possibly by allowing him greater access. and increasing the importance of his position. DD/P requests DCI guidance in further discussion of this matter, during which hetnow inteds to reaffirm CIA's view that London should remain the chief point of liaison between the 2 services. A proposed reply is being submitted to the DCI TOP SECRET - COPY # OF 5. /i
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.