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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
DIRECTOR'S LOG -g
T OF DATE 8:30 AM,29 Oct. - 8:30 AM,30 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED. FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
Early in November, the Greek KE main clandestine W/T base
and an additional headquartera will be raided by the Ozeek
- Intelligence services with the secret cooperation of OSO.
The traffic of this W/T base has been of interest to AFSA.
Chinese agent in the Philippines, who has refused to accept
Taiwan control, has been threatened with assassination by a
Chinese Nationalist representative froi Taiwan. Thp U.S.
Embassy and Philippine authorities are, being utilized to
protect the agent.
The Paris Station was informed on October 26 by a representative
of the French Internal Security Service that though he- could
not understand the reasons for the FBI having a, man in Paris
liaison with. him was preferable to the FBI1's zining operations
in France. Such liaison would permit greater emphasis on
Soviet satellite targets with OSO.
Chiefs of both the Internal Security Service of France and the
Foreign Intelligence Service have separately informed Mr. Thayer
that they have agreed that foreign embassies and operations con-
nected with them come under the jurisdiction of the Foreign
Intelligence (SDECE).
MAAG has been suggested as the beat cover for the Clandestine
Planning Committee by the Senior Representative, France, and
the Chief, U.S. Army Section of MAAG in France has the matter
under consideration.
The 00 representative in Cyprus has cabled that according to
all.of his sources (which include the local British authorities)
the possibility of an imediate Commnist uprising'in Cyprus is
extremely unlikely.
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