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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, 24 Oct. 8:30 AM, 25 Oct.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
0SO
OSO officers attached to ZIPPER are forwarding photostats of
ten reports received from Otto Skorzenyas alleged penetration
of a Soviet Intelligence net which purportedly extends into
all elements of the Allied High Commission. The reports are
poor carbon copies and are described as .obvious fabrication of
low quality.
General Truscott reports that a forthcoming HICOG-EiCOM directive
will transfer the cost df domestic services performed by German
nationals from the German economy to the holders of billets,
Other services and rents of requisitioned property will be
paid by the U.S. agency concerned.
Antonin Strnad, Czech Commercial Attache at The Hague, defected
on 22 October to the Dutch Internal Security Service, as a
result of a joint Dutch-British operation brought to the
attention of OSO/Brussels in its late stages.
Sir Edward Travis, Director of the British Goernment Communications
Headquarters, British counterpart of AFSAy will visit Washington
late this month. The report of-his iupsnding retirement was-
confirmed last week by General Strong.
Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry, Chief of british Foreign Office
and Secret Service Communications, will'arive i Washington on
3 November for several days during which he will confer with
CIA officials. -
TOP SECRET .(CONTINUED) COPY # _ OF 5 OCT 23 1951
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