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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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.