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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.
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-TOP- SECRE T DIRECTOR'S LOG fiver TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 20 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 22 Oct 51 - )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO- SUBJECT ACTION OSO Major General Kenneth W. D. Strong, Director of the British Joint Intelligence Bureau, du ing the course of a conversation on the evening of 19 Octdber 1951 with Mr. Winston M. Scott, OSO, made the following statements: a. Major General John Alexander Sinclair has won approval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Intelligence Committee to replace Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies as Chief =of the British Secrat Service. Air Commodore James Alfred Easton, now Assistant Chief, will succeed General Sinclair as Vice-Chief.. The position of Assistant Chief will be eliminated. b. General Strong will probably succeed Major . General Terence Airey as G-2, SHAPE,' and will ask for the appointment of Colonel Thomas Betts as his American Deputy. c. Sir Edward Travis, Director of the Government Communications Headquarters, British' counterpart of AFSA, will retire in 1952. d. Sir Percy Sillitoe, Director General of the British Sedurity Service (MI-5), will retire early in 1952. e. (CONTINUED) COPY # L OF -. TOP SECRET OCT 2C 1C5f
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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.