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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. 35 …the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported…
  • p. 46 …FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION ITEMS FROM COL. HANSEN Conversed with Drew Pearson at Doctors Hospital- late…
  • p. 70 …a meeting in either Washington or Col. Hansen New York with not more than a dozen…
  • p. 164 …on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a…
  • p. 172 …the press. Both - Col. Edwards and Col. Hansen advised informally that we' could not give significant…
  • p. 204 …Agency has requested our comment on Col. Hansen for direct an unsigned letter that Agency received…
TOP SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATIO0
DIRECTOR'S LOG
4TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,9 Nov. - 8:30 AM,10 Nov.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT 1f ACTION
OSO
Plans have been made to arrest some SO' lending Greek US Ambassador
Communists in the Athens area on 12 Nov with simultaneous Peurifoy, informed
raids on 2 clandestine radio transmitters. Greek by OSO/Athens, ap-
Security officials are acting with the approval of proves the action &
the Ministers of National Defense and'Interior, but volunteered support
the Prime Minister will not be briefed until the if needed.
time of the arrests.
A professional arms dealer known to the US Naval At- The proposal is
tache in Paris has offered to furnish info making being examined.
possible the interception and confiscation of a shipment
- of war material from Europe to Comunj.st China in return
for 25% of the value of the cargo, if Athe operation is
successful. The Naval Attache believes that the dealer,
having already received payment, hdes in this way to
collect again.
Lt. Col. Juan Dominguez Catalan has.replaced"Lt. Col. Antonio
Cores Fernandez-Canete, Chief of the information Service
(intelligence collection organ) of. the Spanish Gen. Directorate
of Security (DOS). This shift is part of a reshuffle of DGS
personnel following the appointment last August of Brig..Gen.
Rafael Hierro Martinez as Director. Its bearing upon the
currently developing CIA liaison with.Spanish Intelligence
cannot yet be evaluated.
- By memo to .the Asst. Sec'y of State for European Affairs, the Mr. Parangosky
US Political Advisor in Trieste has highly commended Mr. & Mr. Lifschultz
Burton B. Lifschultz, former Chief, OSO/Trieste, and Mr. John are being in-
Farangosky, OSO officer under State cgver in Trieste. formed through
Mr. Lifschultz is now attending the Nat'1 War College as channels.
a representative of CIA.
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