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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.
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TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S-LOG - TE OF DATE . 8:30 AM, 2. Oct. - 8:30 AM, 24 Oct. CUMENT RECEIYED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION SO On 13 September 1951, 00 opened a bank account at the Manufacturers' Trust Company, New York; City, in the name of Juliusz Katz=Suchy, as part of an effort to induce his defection. As a fourth Polish attempt to ,determine the origin of the account, the Polish'U.N. delegate has now demanded all facts about the transaction from the Guaranty Trust Compary, which opened the account for OSO, threatening to raise the matter "before a much wider forum", presumably the U.N. General Assembly. A full statement of the facts is being prepared for the Deputy Director, and the Chief, Monetary Branch, OSO Finance Division, will discuss the case with the Guaranty Trust on 24 October. DD/P, in a conference in Naples with Adm. Carney, emphasized the importance of preserving the present productive lilisba arrangements between OSO and the Italian Intelligence Services, - explaing that Mr. Michael Mitchell was being assigned to the Admiral's staff for the express purpose of conducting liaison of this nature. Recalling that Gen. Eisenhoweri had - brought this point to his attention, Adm. Carney indicated that he would respect CIA interests in this regard. An OSO agent and a 2-man team have returned to Greece from missions in Sofia and in west-central Bulgaria. OPc Recruitment of officers has begun for tte Bulgarian Guard Company in Germany. In addition, 61 Bulgarians have been recruited and 110 candidates are in process to fill enlisted ranks. Rimanian King Michael has issued a hurried summons for Visoianu, President of the Rumanian National Committee in 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 under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.