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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 DIRECTOR'S LOG - SECURITY INFORMATION TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,3 Nov. - 8:30 AM,5 Nov. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO- A recent report on Communism in Pakistan received by OSO through liaison with the Pakistan Intelligence Bureau has been given the highest possible evaluation (A-l) by the Department of State. Chief, NEA (OSO/OPC), called upon Mr. Graham, Ass't Sec'y of the Treasury on 31 October, to discuss the possibility of.T-man cover for CIA personnel abroad, specifically at Tangier, Beirut, Teheran, and Alexandria. Mr. Graham was most receptive to the idea and has, arranged for Chief, NEA, to discuss the matter in detail with the Commissioner of the Narcotics Branch of the Depart- ment of the Treasury on 5 November. An OSO representative met with Ambassador to Ceylon Joseph Satterthwaite and Mr. William Witman, Chief of the India-Nepal desk, -at the Department on 1 Nov. to discuss, at the Ambassadorts requestjoperational and security matters relating to the recently opened OSO station at Colombo. - 00- Three Polish army privates, who defected to the-French in Berlin on 20 Oct., have arrived at the Defector Reception Center (Germany), and are undergoing preliminary interrogation. OSI - ,~ Reference is made to the log item of 31 Oct 51, covering a conversation between Dr. Chadwell and Dr. Colby of AEC. Dr. Colby has reported that the matter was discussed with Mr. Gordon Dean. Mr. Dean feels there is no need of the suggested conversation between DDCI, AD/SI and Dr. Colby, and a letter has been prepared to this agency covering the Commission's position. This letter should be received within the next few days. TOP SECRET Copy #- 3 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.