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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
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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