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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 - - 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.