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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. 11 …Forces in Germany." OPC Headquarters has received from the field for chemical analysis, a sample of…
  • p. 21 …forces have cut it off from underground headquarters and requested, in view of the extremely difficult…
  • p. 28 …another agent recently arrived from the same headquarters. Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved…
  • p. 38 …Suggest you come as soon as feasible." Headquarters has no further information oilthe matter to date…
  • p. 40 …Chennault's secretary, Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier, passed a message to…
  • p. 41 …OSO The Chief Operations Officer of CIC/Trieste conferred with an unidentified official at Headquarters of…
  • p. 43 …Headquarters has no information on "candle", the subject of the message the secretary passed"inadvertently to…
  • p. 50 …reports that the message misdelivered to BGMARQUE Headquarters in Taipei by General Chennault's secretary was…
  • p. 51 …conducted jointly with the State Security organization headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security has…
  • p. 67 …At headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution channels. COPY # of 5. TOP…
  • p. 86 …RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC Headquarters has authorized dGR Uto drop -2 guerrilla contact teams…
  • p. 98 …Tudeh leaders and the raiding of party' headquarters where the police confiscated propaganda material, etc. Our…
  • p. 99 …This proposal is being considered by Headquarters. On 15 October, 2 guerrilla teams were dropped successfuy…
  • p. 100 …Aerial photos cdnfirmed the destruction of a North Koeah Army batallion headquarters at the Mine and…
  • p. 101 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the Government Communications Headquarters, British' counterpart of AFSA, will retire in…
  • p. 104 …Plans and Training-- the executive and administrative headquarters, .(2)I Escape and Evasion--new E & E…
  • p. 105 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the British Goernment Communications Headquarters, British counterpart of AFSAy will visit…
  • p. 106 …and East Germany have visited their West Berlin headquarters since 1949. Forty-five thousand of these…
  • p. 112 …Thomas that he be given assistance in:.establiahing the, headquarters for the trust territories'in Saipan…
  • p. 119 …in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters. On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant…
  • p. 122 …Washington in detail and has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our Hong Kong liaison…
  • p. 131 …Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London, will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951…
  • p. 139 …OPC's facil ty at Camp Chinen,. Headquarters has Okinawa, has requested authority to terminate the…
  • p. 162 …A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been headquarters in…
  • p. 168 …Paris, in case Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con- tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors…
  • p. 169 …If .this is and instructed to keep not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed…
  • p. 171 …The Spanish police officer in Barcelodna whd handles the Headquarters has decided playback of a captured…
  • p. 189 …Millard Lewis, A-2 USAFE, has informed Chief, OSO/ Headquarters has con- Germany.' that a CIC…
  • p. 194 …OPC Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia- tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London…
  • p. 200 …in 1948 has been called to Party- Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to be restored…
  • p. 209 …202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and…
TOP SECRET
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, ov*- 8:30 AM,7 Nov. - - - -
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT. - ACTION
OSO
OSO representatives briefed Brigadier General Harmony, Chief .
of the U.S. Military Mission to Yugoslavia, on the 030
mission and interest in Yugoslavia, including the current
effort toestabli'sh liaison with the UDB. General Harmony
agreed that such liaison.can best be brought about by
confining it to the CIA channel and advised that he intends,
in the interest of his own mission, to avoid any connection
with clandestine intelligence and to attach no intelligence
officers to his staff.
A section headed by Colonel Tufts has been set up under the
Plans and Operations Staff of SHAPE to administer SHAPE
affairs which involve the Clandestine Committee "of the U.S.,
British, and French Intelligence Service's. The section
operates under the direct command of 1U.S. General Bowen,
Deputy to French General Bodet.
Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry, Director of Communications
for the British Secret Service and the Foreign Office,
is now in Washington. and will call on CIA officials.
*00
Two young Hungarian Air Force sergeants who flew a training
plane into Western Germany last February have reached the
United States from the Defector Reception Center (Germany).
They will be held here temporarily en route to .Honduras,
where Contact Division has arranged for them to worlk for
the subsidiary of an American company.
OPC
A meeting has been in progress since 2 November-between
representatives of the Great Russian Emigre grog1ps and
TOP SECRET ONTINUED) COPY # OF 5. NOV 6 1951
SECURITYIhI JhMATifl

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