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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
VTOP SECRE T . 1< (
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 31 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 1 Nov.
ITE OF DATE ACTION
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT
OSO
A Moscow. broadcast on 26 October mentioned an "electrical
torture machine handled by Americann:Robert Driscoll, an
employee of the American Embassy in Athens." This pro-
paganda, published in a Pravda article on the "Bloody
Crimes of The Greek Monarcho-Fascists", obviously refers
to the use of the polygraph in connection,with the interrogation
of certain Greek Communist personalities in the presence of
Mr. Driscoll who until recently was in charge of the OSO anti-
Communist project in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters.
On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache,
Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly intercepted by a
group which has penetrated a &ssian net'operating against
HICOG in Germany. The -00 representative in Madrid will.
continue efforts to obtain copies of these reports from
SKORZENY.
The official British visit to ZIPPER at Pullach will take place
on 6.and 7 November. British officers attending will include
Gen. Kirkman, Chief of Intelligence for the British High
Commissioner, and Mr. Simon Gallienne, Head of the MI-6 Station
in Germany.
Radio Tirana reported on 25 Oct. the elimination of 7 additional
spies who.had been parachuted into Albania. It identified the
men as British Intelligence agents.
To improve the security of CIA-directed operations against
Albania, the Executive Committee and the Military Junta of
the National Committee for a Free Albania and the Albanian
Guard Company in Germany will be excluded.from 1952 activities.
As an additional precaution, agent training will be moved from
the present training site in Germany. 1
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