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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. 2 …Chief of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should await the arrival of the official CIA…
  • p. 72 …stay- behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may…
  • p. 92 …Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret…
  • p. 107 …Tnis infonaation was brought to the attention of our representative in Madrid. ho requested that the…
  • p. 119 …On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache, Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly…
  • p. 131 …He will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951. Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in…
  • p. 168 …US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air…
  • p. 171 …official liaison with the Spanish Services in Madrid. A large US electronic instrument firm, which has…
  • p. 208 …Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the U.S. Legal Attache that the British…
  • p. 217 …OSO/Madrid, however, reports that the Chief of Spanish Intelligence wants the project to' continue on…
TOP SECRET ' nc,
SECURITY INFORMATION J
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 30 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 3 Oct.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPe
Under the NSC-26 Oil- Denial Program, a contract has just-
been concluded with the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company
whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward
the purchase of well-cementing and perforating equipment.
050
The Chief oF Station at Fort Amador, C.. 4, .exploring
the possibility of a site within the Canal Zone for a
disposal center. The Executive Secretary of the, Panama
Canal has authorized the station to survey possible sites
in the belief that the Governor would be. willing'to
cooperate in such a-project.
This action is being taken in view of difficulties:
being encountered in negotiating for San Jose island. -
MISCELLANEOUS
Mr. LeBaron has approved our request that certain members AD/NE
of the National Estimates Board be allowed to attend the
periodic class conducted at Sandia.
TOP SECRET COpY # OF 5. . OCT 3 0 1951

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.