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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
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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