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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. 108 …Rimanian King Michael has issued a hurried summons for Visoianu, President of the Rumanian National Committee…
  • p. 109 …Because of this, it is suspected that the British and King Michael may have made some…
  • p. 127 …C.King as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have Share Co. offered…
  • p. 141 …the US Merchant Marine Acad'ery at Kings Point, New York. He was well received and…
  • p. 155 …to the Panama Station requesting J. C. King, who arrives there on 21 Nov. to malke…
  • p. 178 …in .an accurate fore- cast of a probable coup d'etat prior to the King's…
  • p. 184 …time, Hassan will submit the program to King Farouk for approval. Stressed immediately will .be assistance…
  • p. 192 …Roosevelt have The intelligence requested that intelligence material of interest material and equipment to'King Faroul…
  • p. 196 …The King has written a letter ~to the Prime Minister agreeing in principle to the constitutiorial…
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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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.