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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.

TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG -
'TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,7 Sept. - 8:30 AM,8 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
A Portuguese DP who left Shanghai in mid-August has
reported that a former U.S. paratrooper in Chinese military
uniform is believed to be collaborating with the Chinese
Communists in Shanghai. The man lives at the former Shanghai
address of Hugh Redmond, a stay-behind staff employee
previously reported arrested and possibly executed, who.
was also a former paratrooper. OSO is attempting to check
the report.
The British Security Service (MI-5) informed OSO that
there is no basis for legal action against David Floyd,
a former Foreign Office official suspected of espionage
who voluntarily disclosed Soviet Intelligence associations
but disclaimed any transmission of confidential information.
His testimony, however, implicated Arthur Wynn, empliyee
of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, who is being investigated.
OSO representatives were briefed by Navy on security screening
procedures to be established for U.S. citizens and aliens
evacuated to the U.S. in the event of war. CIA will be
represented at meetings of the Interdepartmental Committee
on Internal Security relating to this matter, in order to
arrange for prompt entry of CIA personnel in any emergency
situation.
The British Secret Service (MI-6) refused to release but
offered to share the services of an agent in Spain who applied
for employment by OSO. The OSO London Station will reply
that CIA has no interest in a joint operation of this kind.
Ambassador Murphy has urged the Department of State to approve
a forthcoming OSO request to open a station in Antwerp with
a complement of one officer and one clerk. Ambassador Murphy's
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