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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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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