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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.

TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
SOF DATE 8:30 AM, 29 Oct. 8:30 AM, 30 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
Radio Tirana reported on 21i October the liquidation of 13 U.S.
espionage agents who had been dropped into Albania. Of the 8
men mentioned by name, 6 were members of CIA teams. This
announcement, coupled'with'tIstimony at the Tirana spy trials,
indicates that the Communists may know of the covert training
school for Albanian and Bulgarian agents at the Hambuchen
Estate near Munich. It also raises the possibility that'
Communist agents have penetrated the National Committee for
a Free Albania as well as the possibility that a 2-man team
which parachuted into Albania last -May, is under Albanian control.
In view of possible penetration, consideration is being
given to applying polygraph tests to the Military.Junta of the
NCFA, members of the Executive Committee and agent selectees.
The status of the covert training schol also is being examined
with a view to moving the training activities to a new site.
OS'
suggest that the JAEIC prepare a standard
order of procedure for disseminating information on foreign atomic
energy developments such as the Russian atomic explosions. This
procedure will insure notification immediately of each Government
official. with a "need to knowu. It will also contain instructions
on the manner in.which the information is to be passed to each
designated official.
- Legislative Conisel
Office of Roger Jones, Asst. Director. or Legislative Reference,
Bureau of the Budget, called Mr. Prorzheimer to state that in view
of the CIA letter on the legislation for the exchange of atomic
energy info as well as a similar- letter from the AEC, the President
was considering issuing a.statement when he signs .the legislation
indicating the defects in the bill. The President plans to point
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TOP SECRET (CONTINUED)
SUtY INFORMATI-N

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