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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. 131 …be settled out of court, Taylor remains adamant in his contentionthat he has been. defrauded by…
  • p. 171 …Dixon was adamant'in insisting that CIA assume responsibility for it. Mr. Furnas agreed with the…
TOP SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION Noted DCI
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 7 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 8 Nov. -
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM -TO . SUBJECT - ACTION
OSO
Col. Louis Einthoven, Chief of the Dutcji Internal Security
Service, expressed regret through the" British Secret Service
representative in Brussels that there was no. tripartite
British-Dutch-U.S. coordination of action against the
recently-defected Czech Commercial Attache in-The Hague
and the Czech Military Attache in Brussels. This appears
to initiate a British-Dutch effort to persuade CIA to
conduct joint operations in Holland.
Brigadier General Henry A. Barber, Jr., Senior CIA
Representative in Spain, is scheduled to depart from
New York 10 November 1951 on the SS Constitution. He
will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951.
Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London,
will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951.
OPC.-
L.K. Taylor, former partner of Whiting Willauer in the
predecessor company of CAT, is bringing suit in Taiwan against
Corcoran et al alleging that Taylor, as a shareholder of the
former company, was not paid his share.of .the proceeds realized
in'the sale to the undisclosed purchaser (U.S.Government).
Despite strong representations by Mr. Willauer,- Minister Carl
Bankin and others that the matter be settled out of court,
Taylor remains adamant in his contentionthat he has been.
defrauded by his former -associates and is proceeding to sue.
No disclosure has been made, to CIA's knowledge; of the U.S.
Government's interest in CAT although Minister Ranidn in. his.
discussion-with Taylor emphasized that CAT was performing vital
services for the. U.S. Government which would be prejudiced if
Taylor sued. Col. Stilwell is seeing Corcoran. to secure his
agreement to settle the case out of court'.
TOP SECRET :(CONTINUED) COPY # j OF 5. ,
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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.