: ' •" ., ' ''. < ' I : '• ,f \ ,.; 1 I ' •• TOP SECRET 0 I RECTOR Is LOG ~TE OF )CUMENT DATE RECEIVED 8:30 AM, 28 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 29 Sept. FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION oso Otto S)corzeny, ex-Nazi paramilit.:U.y expert has offered through the Asst. U.S. Air Attache in iiadrid to· provide · to U.S. intelligence information obtained .from penetration of a Soviet espionage ring in the. western Zone of Germany. OSO' s i•iadrid representative has requested that Skorzeny be required to furnish more details b'efqre ·a meeting with appropriate U.S. officials can be arranged. ,, AJ OSO is arranging through the U.S. Attache in StockhoL'11 to have·Danish pilots with Scandinavian Airlines briefed for their flights through satellite countries·. ! ' The Director of the Security Division of AEC, has written the ADSO complimenting OSO for its surveillance of Sergio de Benedetti, AEC employee, during his recent European travels. · OPC ctA Gen. Eisenhower ·has expressed to consultant Edward:'i•i. Earle, a professor at.Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological waJ:fare operations designed. to strengthen our Ji!ATO allies would, in his .opinion, be more productive than psychological warfar!) directed against our enemies, He has asked Professor Earle to disucss the matter.with interested private. individuals in the U'.S., in particular· Gen• Donovan. He believes that these operations should .. be ·conducted by private organizations and that the U.S.G6vernment should not be overtly associated with them. ( Negotiations with Turkish authori'ties''~e ~·eorganization of the Turkish police and security services appear to haire stallled, at least temporarily. Fuhctions. whiCh CIA hoped TOP SECRET SEP 2 S 191;~

DI RECTOR.' S LOG ATE OF OCUMENT DATE RECEIVED 8: 30 AM, 28 Sept - 8: 30 AM, 29 Sept. FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION ·ope Cont'd. would be removed from the obstructive and suspect Turkish National Security Service are to remain within the jurisdic- tion of the head of th~-t organization, mo appears to have regained at least some measure of his former stature. Pros- pects for the use of Turkish territory as a base for covert operations into the USSR and the Balkans have improved, · howeve;.·. Taking advantage of the cicc:asion of Turkey's· immiµent entry into the NATO, U.S.Air.b:assador Wadsworth has informed the Turkish Prime Minister·· 'a:nd roreign Hinister of U.S. interest in conducting prospective operations from Turkey.into adjacent ~ommunist areas. The 2 Turkish officials expressed willingness to cooperate·and have·agreed to the conduct of negotiations and liaison for 'this purpose through the Turkish General Staff, .rather thf'r the '.INSS. 1be League of Nazi ?ersecutees, an organization which has been covertly supported by CIA since··' it broke '·with the Conununist front association of Nazi Persecutees; is preparing for active resistance in the East Zone· of Germany.and for countereabotage operations in Western Germany. ·'Ihe League has 20,000 members of \Vestern Germany and mcire than 500 in Berlin and the East Zone. Its activities'have been limited previously to political and psychological warfare • ./ TOP SECRET COPY#j_OF5.

TOP SECRET. DIRECTOR'S LOG OF )CUMENT ~TE 8:30 AM, 29 Sept.- 8:30 AM,JO Sept. DATE RECEIVED FROM TO ACTION SUBJECT ! . OSQ ·' The explosion at the Allied Military. Goverpment building ·in Trieste on 27 Sep~, generally" bel~eved to be the work of pro-Italian extre.'llists, caused no. -,damage ·to the OSO station aside fro:n breakinz a few windows. ~ Action has bee~ completed in the case of .the Russian Embassy employee who raquested enrollment a:t Geor~etown University where CIA employe~s regularly receive language training. After consultation with All/50 and fill, it was reco.n.nended to Georgetown UnivGrsity that the requested enrollment be disapproved. . -.;. .· I·~ '.c9PY ;t j_ OF' 5. ! TOP SECRET · ·,. . ~ \ I •· • ;· ,., '• \ ' •

·'.' DIRECTOR'S LOG lATE OF IOCUMENT DATE RECEIVED FROM 8:30 AM, 1 Oct - 8:30. AM, 2 Oct ACTION SUBJECT TO OPC '~ Intelligence furnished by a CIA-controll<ki guerrilla force in North Korea enabled the Fifth ·.Air force to bomb and strafe a concentration of enemy troops. 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 resuonded to the State Department messaee 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 circumstl/llc.es 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. 0.PC 1 s two principal ~l!,ents in Iran report the receipt of· message .from a source inside the Tudel:i.Party on 25 September in- forming· them that the Provincial Corllld.ttee of the Tudeh Party has advised 1'udeh cells to be ready for action and to stand b,f for in- structions to "get to 'work". The source did not know what 11 work 11 meant, but believed it meant r.evolution or major civil di,sturbance. The. field cautions that the report is not entirely clear and states that no infor:uation on a plaruied Communist-inspired revolution· has been received from embassy or other c·IA sources. The field c.omments, however, that regard.less' of the·'validity of the report it appears evident that increased. Tudeh Party ,activity is imminent. US officials in Teheran have been informed of the report •. At headquarters, it has been placed" in:the norma1 intelligence distribution channels. a: COPY #_L of 5. TOP SECRET OCT 11951

. ' ~- ~ •' ' ,, ,..~ ,•. . I~·:-:~ \ \, . TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG lATE OF lOCUMENT 8: 30 AM, l Oct. DATE RECEIVED FROM TO · 2 Oct •. 8 :30 AM, ACTION SUBJECT ·~ (Cont'd) CIA A.thens reports that the French Ambassador in Sofia was informed by a Greek diplomatic source that BADIO GO.lilANIN ;l.s located in Greece and is not a real clandestine station but is U.S. sponsored. Word to this effect appears to have spread throughout the Sofia diplomatic commii.nity. After three days absence without leave~ a Framcfurt OPC st.a.ff employee, Walter Reason (GS-7 1 Administrative assist.ant) 1 sent a conunercial cable from Rome requesting instructions on how to resign from the Agency. A representative from the Fra.nk.f.'urt station was immediately sent. to' ·'Home to return Reason to FrankfUrt. On orders from Washington, Re.ason was .·flown to the Uni t.ed St.ates to be int.e;frogated by I & s. The interrogation and polygraph. tests were negative. Reason was discharged for abandonment of posit.ioii~ his -~assport, ~'and AGO cards have been sent by the Transportation Division to State and Army for cimcellation. The case is .considered closed. The second scheduled plenary meeting of the Organization Bureau of the CIA sponsored Council for the Liberation of the - Peoples of tlussia has been delayed beyond the projected data of JO September. Tbe delay has been caused primarily by the Georgian groups who are taking longer than predicted in signing the Stuttgart Pri:>tocoi. These groups are, now 5:x:pected to meet and reach an agreement among themselves. on the Protcicol on ~ October. The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will ireet: in Cairo in early October for the same purjlose, ' ·.1 . oso While in Paris the OOI invited Robert }lirsch, Director of the Surete Nationale, to visit CIA in Washington, Sllggesting also that Mr. Tb.Ver be in \iashington at the same time. The visit is tentatively sc.heduled for the firs£ week in November. TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) . COPY if _,_ OF 5. OCT 11951

DIRECTOR'S LOG >ATE OF IOCUMENT DATE RECEIVED 8: 30 AM, l FROM 0 ct. TO . 0 8: 30 AM, 2 ct. i'.•. SUBJECT. ACTION A courier from an eso team in schithem: Albania reporU!d .slow but secure progress of the operation and brought lnform;ation on the breakup of an OPC miasion and a Greek-sponsored team by internal security troops. ·... ' COPY'# L TOP SECRET . . - .' • -. _, '.. • • . ' t .. OF s. OCT l 1951

.. · ·. : I " - - • JATE OF lOCUMENT DATE RECEIVED - ' '''• / TOP SECRET 0"1 RECTOR Is LOG TO \ ' 8:30 AM, 2-0ct. - 8:30 AM, .3 Oct. FROM' • C I "~ r • llaled Of I :f:t_kJ • OCI $? ACTION SUBJECT ~ An OSO agent recruited in Finlanq.has returned from a two-week cross-border mission in· the Karelia.'1 IsthlllllS and is being debriefed. Owing to the sensitive cover situation of OSO/HeJ.sinki, this operation has been handled through th.e local U.S. Aney: .Attache-;. OPG The Chinese Nationalist Air Force dropped an additional 30,000 leaflets over Fuld.en Province in a CIA-directed operation on 27 Sept, bringing to 145,000 the total dropped during the month of September. Arrangements have been made with the Chin.ese National:j.st Air Force for night and possibly d,,Y photographic missioD;S over the Chinese mainland with the next .two months. Western Enterprises Inc., the BGi·iARQUE cov~r org~ization, wil.l furnish photographic equipment and te~hnicians . . The u;s. Hilitary Attache at Taipei will furnish FEAF with copies of phot.ogI'aphs taken. The l1ilitary'Attache will also.' establish a symbol to be affixed· to the j:ihotographs which .will give Western Enterprisss a credit line. MISCELLANEOUS !..o. In a letter to DCI, Mike Cowles indicates he believes it would be worthwhile to hold a meeting in,e~ther Washington or New York with not more than a 9ozen tqp ~wspaper editors, press service executives and news magS;zine' officiaJ.s to. give ; them a confidential briefing on CIA, . <XlPY TOP SECRET . .. ' '/' . ·.... · ' -, .: # ..J__ OF' . ' $. Col. Hansen

• -~-..· ' ~ •• . )ATE OF JOCUMENT DATE RECEIVED FROM _, ''..·. .. ! ' '., TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM, 2 Oct. - 8:30 AM, TO j 3 Oct. ~ I ,-:;· ~· ' \ ' • .. J ACTION SUBJECT In reply to Mr. Gordon Gray• s memorandwn on planning with respect to the Far East, he has been informed that it is' this Agency's view that Strategic Psychological Warfare· planning with respect to the Far East ';¢.d with particular respect to Japan is a subject that should recei.ve the· early cons~deration of PSB. . .. ' DD/A Mr. Harvey, Chief Clerk of the House Appropriations ·committee, called Mr. Pforzheimer to request that ,ne come and brief Qongressman ·Mabon, Chief of· the Aimed Services Appropriations Subcommittee, regarding the appropriation for a.CIA buil~g'contained in the Amed Services Public Works Bill pre'sently 'before Mr. ·Mabon' s Subcommittee. Mr. Pforzheimer briefed Mr. Mahon on the u~nt L needs !or a building, together with c·ost figures, and pointed out t.aat Chairman Vinson and Cha.innan fussell o! the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, !or reasons c.! security, had h&ncil.ed the substantive matter before their Committees themselves. Mr. Pforzheimer reQUested Congressman Mahon to do likewise i f possible and Mr; Mahon agreed that it would be preferable but that he would have to consider the problem at least overnight and would inform ·US if any additional ,appearan~e. were necessary. ' •,: ' 'f'' COPY # TOP SECRET _j_ OF 5. OCT 2 1951

. • •. • ATE OF OCUMENT 8:30 AM, DATE RECEIVED FROM ' t";. ~ ·;.~\ , . . 3 Oct. - : • LOG 4 Oct. 8:30 AM, lioted Q!!£ i,.'. . ; ,· .• I. •' '•} The German Internal Security Service has discovered a penetration of the Government Piint:itig Office tn Bonn through which sensitive official documents have been fUrnished to an unknown intelligence service and to the Ge.man' Social Democratic Party. Timely reporting of the developme'nt by an OSO penetration agent has enabled oso to forestall'compromise by turning over to the Gennan Service one batch of the documents recently offered for inspection. Although the OSO operation appears to be in the clear, the involvement of ·the German •Soci,U. Democratic Party through the llecretazy of its leader, Kurt Schumacher, may precipitate• a scan9&1; ' A British Secret Service agent in cl;la~g~· of the British stay- bebind operations in Spain informed 9f'l/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may be iumed(over to c:tA for financial reasons; OSO in.fers 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 fiJ.es. General J. Lawi.)n Collins i~ planning a purely personal visit in Stockholm 8-10 October wit.A his daughter, the wife of an OSO Station memter. The ·Embassy and the Anny Attacbe have cleared with the Foreign Office and are atte!lllting to mi.I).imize tbe of!i.cial reception to avoid pcissible misinte:rpretation of the visit. · Dr. Thede Palm, Chief of the Swedish fat~lligence Service, is willing to discuss all CIA-proposed topics during bis visit to Washington but is unwilling to comment beforehand on the agenda. . (CONTINUED) TOP SECRET ' , 0 ••~ ,....~ • ' t ' ~- :i, >;; I I ,I DCI · . ACTION ·'.~ . ·:: ~, ..:d.<l/~7...:-~ --··-··--·· ...... :{ SUBJECT TO . .·· TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S \' COl'Y # -'- OF • - s. OC1 3 \95\

• IATE OF OCUMENT TOP SECRET .,, DIRECTOR'S LOG .3 Oct. - 8: 30 AM, 4 8: 30 AM, DATE RECEIVED FROM TO Oct~ • SUBJECT £!!Q ACTION (Cont'd) '·'i'.. OSO/St.ockholm believes he will t-3.ke the \.ine that CIA overestimates the extent of Swedish cap~bilities. Two OSO agents have returned to Salzburg· from a mission into Hungary during which they buried a radio set. · OPC Mr•. Georges Gogh, a member of the General Committee of the CIA-controlled Nationr.J. Conunittee for Free Albania is now in New York City. He wil.l initiate important chazigee in the makeup and content of the NCFA newspaper, SHQIPERIA, prior to moving the editorial offices from New York to Home-within the next: three months. Mr. Gogh will remain approxiLlately three weeks, after ·which his place will be taken by "i~f Pali of the Executive · Committee, Mr. David Dallin has resigned from the· New Yori< League, a Russian emigre organization, giving as the reasons for his resignation the League's "immoral" decision tO collaborate with the emigre organization NTS and the ;vicious nature and con- duct of the CIA-contl-:>lled American Comm{ttee for the Liberation of the Peoples of. fussia which~ accor¢i.n'i{ to Dall.in, haa dictated, forced decisions and bribed with promises of financial assistance. Eugene Lyons, President of the American '<;onuid,ttee, is drafting a letter to the Novoyoe ilusskoye· Slovo· wnich will deny Dallin' s I accusations and attack.his methods .and motive~~ · ··i-..- COPY # _L OF 5. QC1 3 1~5\ TOP SECRET • • J ' - • .. ' :- ~ r; J' r