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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. 108 …Rimanian King Michael has issued a hurried summons for Visoianu, President of the Rumanian National Committee…
  • p. 109 …Because of this, it is suspected that the British and King Michael may have made some…
  • p. 127 …C.King as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have Share Co. offered…
  • p. 141 …the US Merchant Marine Acad'ery at Kings Point, New York. He was well received and…
  • p. 155 …to the Panama Station requesting J. C. King, who arrives there on 21 Nov. to malke…
  • p. 178 …in .an accurate fore- cast of a probable coup d'etat prior to the King's…
  • p. 184 …time, Hassan will submit the program to King Farouk for approval. Stressed immediately will .be assistance…
  • p. 192 …Roosevelt have The intelligence requested that intelligence material of interest material and equipment to'King Faroul…
  • p. 196 …The King has written a letter ~to the Prime Minister agreeing in principle to the constitutiorial…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
%TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 24 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 25 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO .(Cont'd)
Colonel Coverdale of G-2, at General Weckerling'a request,
called on DADSO to..discuss_ representation on the Interagency
Priorities Committee'. Col. Coverdale reported General Weckerling
as saying that Army must be' represented by a soldier. DADSO
said this would be 'acceptable as long as. there is continuity
in representation and due security precautions. Col. Coverdale
also stated that Secretary Pace is extremely interested in
intelligence matters and plans to go to Germany shortly to see -
what the Army is doing.
A meeting between DADSO and ADPC resulted in agreement to
merge SO and PC registries, to establish a common unit for -
intelligence support of operations and to establish a common
Division for operations against the. USSR. -
CO
The League of Freedom Loving Lawyers (OPC-sponsored) reports
that over 60,000 persons from East Beilin. and East Germany
have visited their West Berlin headquarters since 1949.
Forty-five thousand of these came to seek legal advice, while
15,000 came voluntarily to express opposition to the Communist
regime.
The majority of these 15,000 potential collaborators, as well
as 2,500 active collaborators, have been cisared by the
organizations security section. Much of-the cadre for the
League's planned paramilitary organization will come from this
established reserve.
An accredited VOA representative who is going .to the General
Assembly meetings in Paris is the same NE agent who did such
a satisfactory job for OPC at the San Francisco Treaty Conference.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # - OF 5. OCT 23 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.