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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, 25 Oct.- 8:30 AM,26 Oct.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO Contld.
In an effort to improve political reporting in Indochina, the
First Secretary of the US Legation inSaigoa has requested
State Dept. permission to- establish .a covert 'relationship with
the Chief of French Intelligence in that area. CIA opposes
development of such a relationship as prejudicial to the
impending establishment of formal CIA-French Intelligence
liaison in Indochina. The State Dept. has accepted the CIA'
view and will so instruct the Legation.
Dutch Internal Security is secretly sending the recently-
defected Czech Commercial Counsellor in The Hague to Canada
and will publicize his defection on 30 October. His evidence
will be used to crack down on firms engaged in illegal East-
West trade and publication of the fact that the Czech ;ilitary
Attache; in Brussels was long penetrated by'a Dutch-Belgian
double-agent operation will, the Dutct believe, "set back Czech
espionage in the Lowlands at least a year." -
The Senior Representative in Paris reports that Pierre Boursicot,
Chief of the French Secret Service, has told the French. Prime
Minister that he hopes to stay in office 10 years to accomplish
his program. This contradicts a previous reliable report,
supported by rumors in the Frencp Service, that Boursicot would
leave .his post within a few months.
M. Robert Hirsch, Director of the: French Surete Nationale, will
arrive in Washington on 6 November with his subordinate, Auguste -
Sauzon, Chief of the Soviet Section; Surveillance du Territoire,
for a ten-day visit, during which they will confer with CIA and
FBI officers.
Air Commodore James A. Easton, Asst. Chief of the British Secret
Service, offered to discuss mutual problems with CIA representatives
in Hongkong, Singapore, and Tokyo during his- trip around the world
beginning 5 Novemb'e COPY # iOF 5. t

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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.