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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…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TF DATE 8:30 AM, 1 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 2 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION
OSO (Contfd)
has reported the above situation to Washington in detail and
has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our
Hong Kong liaison arrangemdnts with the British in order to
protedt our intelligence assets. Such a review is in progress
and recommendations will be made for the handling of this
situation.
OPC
A mob of 300 East German laborers is reported to have stormed
a jail in Saxony and freed two fellow workers. The move was
without obvious political overtones but oneof the workers freed
and the chief of the jail, who ordered the release ostensibly
to prevent bloodshed, are both secret members of the CIA-
sponsored League of Freedom-Loving Lawyers.
MISCELLANEOUS
Alexandra and Ilia Tolstoy and Boris Sergievsky have requested
appointment with Secly of Defense to discuss anew developments
in Russian situation". Secly Lovett has asked CIA for back-
ground of this delegation and advice as to whether or not he
should receive them. DD/P
TOP SECRET COPY # / 9F S NOV 1 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.