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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.
“Headquarters”31 pages
- p. 11 …Forces in Germany."
OPC
Headquarters has received from the field for chemical
analysis, a sample of…
- p. 21 …forces have cut it off
from underground headquarters and requested, in view of
the extremely difficult…
- p. 28 …another agent recently arrived from the same headquarters.
Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved…
- p. 38 …Suggest you come as soon as feasible."
Headquarters has no further information oilthe matter to date…
- p. 40 …Chennault's secretary,
Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier,
passed a message to…
- p. 41 …OSO
The Chief Operations Officer of CIC/Trieste conferred with an
unidentified official at Headquarters of…
- p. 43 …Headquarters has no information on "candle", the subject of the
message the secretary passed"inadvertently to…
- p. 50 …reports that
the message misdelivered to BGMARQUE Headquarters
in Taipei by General Chennault's secretary was…
- p. 51 …conducted jointly with the State Security organization
headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security
has…
- p. 67 …At
headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution
channels.
COPY # of 5.
TOP…
- p. 86 …RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
Headquarters has authorized dGR Uto drop -2 guerrilla
contact teams…
- p. 98 …Tudeh leaders and the raiding of party' headquarters
where the police confiscated propaganda material, etc.
Our…
- p. 99 …This
proposal is being considered by Headquarters.
On 15 October, 2 guerrilla teams were dropped successfuy…
- p. 100 …Aerial photos
cdnfirmed the destruction of a North Koeah Army batallion
headquarters at the Mine and…
- p. 101 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the Government
Communications Headquarters, British' counterpart
of AFSA, will retire in…
- p. 104 …Plans and Training--
the executive and administrative headquarters, .(2)I Escape and
Evasion--new E & E…
- p. 105 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the British Goernment Communications
Headquarters, British counterpart of AFSAy will visit…
- p. 106 …and East Germany
have visited their West Berlin headquarters since 1949.
Forty-five thousand of these…
- p. 112 …Thomas that he be given assistance in:.establiahing the,
headquarters for the trust territories'in Saipan…
- p. 119 …in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters.
On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant…
- p. 122 …Washington in detail and
has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our
Hong Kong liaison…
- p. 131 …Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London,
will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951…
- p. 139 …OPC's facil ty at Camp Chinen,. Headquarters has
Okinawa, has requested authority to terminate the…
- p. 162 …A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been
headquarters in…
- p. 168 …Paris, in case
Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con-
tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors…
- p. 169 …If .this is and instructed to keep
not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed…
- p. 171 …The Spanish police officer in Barcelodna whd handles the Headquarters has decided
playback of a captured…
- p. 189 …Millard Lewis, A-2 USAFE, has informed Chief, OSO/ Headquarters has con-
Germany.' that a CIC…
- p. 194 …OPC
Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia-
tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London…
- p. 200 …in 1948 has been called to Party-
Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to
be restored…
- p. 209 …202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red
Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and…
TOP SECRET .
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 22 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 23 Oct. -
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
During the course of the joint U.S.-Dutch and U.S.-French dispatch
missions successfully executed on 18-19 October, the dispatching
aircraft encountered anti-aircraft- fire and observed a fighter
plane near Pleven in northern Bulgaria but returned to base
undamaged.
Lack of a suitable aircraft has forced the British Secret Service
to cancel dispatch of a fifth W/T team of Bandera Ukrainian
partisans into the western Ukraine. Only one of three teams
dispatched in May 1951 was able to establish W/T contact. A.
fourth team proceeding overland has reported satisfactory progress
by mail.
Two.OSO agents returned to Greece from a subcessful 19-day mission
in Bulgaria along the Yugoslav border.
The newly-designated Chief, OSO/Belgrade, arrived in Belgrade on
17 October.
OPC
Two BGMARISJE guerrilla warfare teams were dropped on the night
of 17 October: one team on central coastal Chekiang Province
(121-02, 28-51), and the other team on central eastern Chekiang
Province (120-31, 28-51). A report from the first team indicated
that one chute failed to open. The-name of the individual is.
not available at this time. No contact has been made with the
second team since the drop.
Plans have been made to. recruit members from the League of
Freedom Loving Lawyers, an OPC-sponsored organization, for
paramilitary operations in East Germany. The operations will
be supervised and directed by indigenous leaders who will be
(CONTINUED) COPY A' OF 5. OCT 22 1951TOP SECRET
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