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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.
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TOP SECRET - SECURITYINFORMATION DIRECTOR'S LOG LV -. ' 1TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 1 Nov. -'8:30 .AM 2 Nov. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT. ACTION OSO On 25 October, Tirana radio announced the death of three agents, parachuted into Albania. allegedly "by the British Intelligence Service". These men, in fact, belonged..to a four-man mission . sent: into north Albania by OSO from Greece. One member of the \team escaped; he arrived in Greece about 22 October, but no debriefing of him has yet been received. Alexander Vasiljevich Kliukin, Soviet citizen who was taken into custody by Norwegian police when he crossed the border from USSR recently, now admits to police that he was sent on a one month's mission which was to take him to Stockholm and Finland before his return to Russia. Norwegian I.S. is keeping OSO in Oslo informed. Talks with Dr. Thede Palm, chief of Swedish Intelligence, are progressing smoothly. Dr. Palm plans to leave this weekend for a week's visit to New Orleans. He will return to Washington for the weekend of 10-13 November and leave Nee York for Sweden. on 16 November. 00 recently asked the Canadian Under-Secretary for External Affairs for permission to interview and interrogate a group of Polish refugees who have recent'ly.arrived in Canada. The Canadian response acceded fully to the OSO request, -and will meet our requirements. General Foulkes, Chairman of the Canadian Chiefs of Staff, intends to discuss this exchange of,intelligence with the DCI in the near future. British authorities in Hong Kong appear to be making a determined bid to reduce the scope of CIA activities there.. Whether the instigation for these British activities stems solely from the policy of the local Hong Kong Government or has been directed from London cannot yet be determined. The OSO representative TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # L OF 5. NOV 1 1951SECURITYINFORMATN.
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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.