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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. 2 …Chief of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should await the arrival of the official CIA…
  • p. 72 …stay- behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may…
  • p. 92 …Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret…
  • p. 107 …Tnis infonaation was brought to the attention of our representative in Madrid. ho requested that the…
  • p. 119 …On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache, Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly…
  • p. 131 …He will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951. Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in…
  • p. 168 …US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air…
  • p. 171 …official liaison with the Spanish Services in Madrid. A large US electronic instrument firm, which has…
  • p. 208 …Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the U.S. Legal Attache that the British…
  • p. 217 …OSO/Madrid, however, reports that the Chief of Spanish Intelligence wants the project to' continue on…
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 under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.