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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
TOP SECRET -
- SECURITYJNFORMATION -
DIRECTOR'S LOG 7
TE 0' DATE 8:30 AM,26 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 27 Oct.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
A French Communist "Titoist" group claiming members in the French
CP Politburo has offered "extraordinary informatibn" at .a high
price to the French Surete Nationale. OSO/Paris believes this
group identical with that now being run through the former Surete
chief, Pierre Bertaux, and surmises that the offer grows out of .
CIA's withholding ftunds which that group has requested.
M.: Robert Hirsch, Chief of French Internal Security, told the
Senior Representative in Paris that he is-satisfied with present
liaison arrangements with CIA, through whidh the bulk of French
exchange information is channeled.. This follows his earlier
disclosure that the FBI had instructed its.Paris: representative
to expand liaison with his organization. :Confronted with the
French statement that the FBI had requested separate liaison,
the FBI representative in Paris stated that the FBI had: assigned
an additional man to Paris for this purpose.
Chief. of security, National Committee for a Free Europe, agreed
with OSO and OPC representatives to improve the coordination
and security of Radio Free Europe's overseas operations by consulting
with OSO and OPC on overseas assignments of U.S. staff personnel
and obtaining. OSO security advice on Foreign nationals employed
in staff positions abroad. MFE is not now willing to-require its
representatives to identify their sub-sources for similar security
checking.
The future status and assignment of Mr. Charles L. Palmer, FU/FEC
Intelligence Officer who returned to the U.S. last. June suffering
from severe strain and fatigue, will be determined after recommendations
to be made by. the Chief, Medical Services, and the Legal Counsel
following his return to duty on 22 October from extended leave..
Since his return was required by the FEC Provost Marshall because
of vilation.f SCAP regulations, it is unlikely that he can be
reassigned at that command.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUEDO) COPE # OF 5. -OCT 26 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.