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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.

  • p. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
TOP SECRET -
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 20.Oct - 8:30 AM, 22 Oct 51
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
050 (CONTINUED)
During the night of 18-19 October 1951 Joint
U.S.-Dutch and U.S.-French teams were dropped into
Rumania from Greeice. These are the first agent drops
which have been made into Rumania. The U.S.-Dutch
team will communicate by W4T to a secretbase in
Italy and the U.S.-French team to a base in France
by W/T.
The British Secret Service informed 00, London, that
John Bruce Lockhart has been definitely selected to
replace M. A. C. Silverwood-Cope as its Washington
representative. Lockhart will leave for Washington
about 22 November.
The State Department, reversing its previous stand,
will accept the OSO nominee for the Warsaw Embassy as
an FSRO Class 3 with the rank of First Secretary,
according to the draft of a letter shown to 050 repre-
sentatives at the Department.
- 2 - COPY NO. . OF .
TOP SECRET -2-
OCT 2 L 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.