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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
- TOP SECRET
SECURITY INURN4ATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG .
\TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 7 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 8 Nov.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
The cover of a CIA representative sent to assist in the covert
exploitation of the UN session in Paris has been jeopardized
by an administrative telegram from the U.S. Embassy there to
theState. Dept. which was inadvertently transmitted in the clear
and given wide distribution in the Embassy. The State Dept.
is now considering a CIA proposal to allow its representative
to remain, provided his. contacts with ;aassy officials are
made through cutouts.
The Wiesbaden conference between representatives of the Great
Russian Emigre groups .and of 6 national minority, groups adjourned
6,Nov. The various groups represented; agreed oh a protocol, but
copld not agree on a name for the organisation, as a result of
which the protocol was not signed. .A press, release is being
issued in Frankfurt stating that the groups have met and agreed
to come together against the common enemy. Another meeting has
been planned for 14 Dec.
The OPC-supported League of Freedom Loving Lawyers received
i.nformation of 90 specific illegal German East-West trade
transactions during the month of Sept. Working with the
intersonal customs service, this organization assisted in
preventing delivery of strategic materials and machines in
a number of cases. The League recently instituted an economic
section which compiles relevant facts and figures on the East
Zone econony.
ISCELLANEUS -
Gordon Gray has furnished. DCI and D/DC1 with copies of a paper,
prepared by PSB Staff on "Psychological Strategy in the Ensuing
Years." Mr. Gray sent the paper to Mr. Lay for .NSC Staff con-
sideration in connection with its reappraisal of_ "US Programs
for National Security " (NSC 114/2) incling revision of Part I,
"Probable Developments in the World Situation." Mr. Lay has
-. TOP SECRET referred the paper to the Sr. NSC Staff.

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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.