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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. 126 …William Witman, Chief of the India-Nepal desk, -at the Department on 1 Nov. to discuss…
- TOP SECRET
- SECURt lCRMATeieI
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 29 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 30 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
Legislative Counsel (Contd;)
out that the legislation impinges unduly on the prerogatives
of the Executive, particularly in that' each exchange must be
placed before the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic
Energy for 30 days prior to taking effect. In reply to their
question, Mr. Pforzheimer stated that CIA would take no
position as to whether the President should or should not
issue such a statement. NE indicated that CIA. had been concerned
about the. delays in exchange which the complicated mechanism
of the Act would entail.
COPY # LOF5
TOP SECRET

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