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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 TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,8 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 9 Nov. CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO Cont'd. again offered to collaborate with Italiai Intelligence.' His proposal will be rejected at 080 sugggstion. The Chief of Norwegian Intelligence now appears to recognize that such incidents as the close-mouthed refusal of 2 of his officers recently sent to Washington for training to state their specific needs can hurt relations between his Service and CIA. Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger, Chief of the Treasury Dept. Bureau of Narcotics, has agreed to furnish . cover for OSO officers assigned abroad in appropriate.cases. A detailed plan to be worked out for his approval will require knowledge of the arrangementsin State Dept. by 2 or 3 high- level officials only. OPC The most recent evaluation of material pertaining to the Dalai Lama indicates a rapidly decreasing possibility df attempted flight by him before weather conditions close the passes in January. The Dept. of aState has instructed its representatives in India:to make a final attempt at encouraging the Dalai Lama's depArture'onthe, grounds that unless he succeeds in leaving immediately he may never be able to leave. Negotiations for the leasing of San. Jqse Island Panama.,to serve as a site for a defector reception arid rehabilitation center have been abandoned. Although the owner of the Island was agreeable and cooperative there was parliamentary opposition and it was not possible to secure the degree.if control over the property. necessary. There are severalother possibilities in Central America., however, and 2 CIA representatives are now in the areat )fj them. SECURITY INFORMATION (CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5.
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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.