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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…
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 above. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.