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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,9 Nov. - 8:30 AM,10 Nov. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT 'ACTION OSO Cont' d. Sir Percy Sillitoe, Director General of th British Security Sir Percy's local Service, arrives in San Francisco on 10 Nov. from New Zealand. office will query He will return to London without visiting Washington unless FBI. ADSO has the DCI or the Director of the FBI wishes t see him. nothing for him. OPC Gen. Ralph Lovett, Chief, Veterans Administration, Philippines, Col. Stilwell will (fully cleared by CIA), has agreed to devote part time to see Mr. Carl Gray, OPC activities and, .in particular, to act as titular head of Chief, Veterans OPC station effective on Col. Lansdale's departure for Administration, and Washington and pending designation new.OPC Chief. Gen. Lovett' s secure his approval prestige will be of great assistance on policy matters with of this arrangement. senior US and Philippine officials in the area.. CIA's. Saipan paramilitary training base han been notified by Col. Stilwell is re- H.M. Hedges, Interior Dept's District Administrator at Saipan, questing DD/F to take that on 5 Nov. Knight Aulsbrook, Interior' s Attorney General action. at Guam, made the following statement: "The Far East Founda- tion, ,Inc. is training Chinese guerrilla.warfare personnel for future use against the Communist regime in China." Aulsbrook interrogated Hedges thoroughly on the activities of.the Far East Foundation, Inc., the organization which covers CIA activities on Saipan, indicating that authorities at uanm were actively interested in the Foundation and. intended to investigate the matter further. Hedges is cleared and aware ofl the true nature of the Foundation; Aulsbrook is not. The I&S Staff has recommended that the matter be taken-up with the Interior Dept. at a high level. On the night of 7-8 Nov., a covert CIA aircraft dropped 500,000 leaflets over Albania. The leaflets, entitledGOuihReply to the Communist Terror" gave specific instructions to the Albanians to avoid overt, acts but to support agents of the Nat'l Committee . for a Free Albania. This drop was important and- timely in that it will show the people that the CIA-supported NCFA is not abandoning ,- g- . OP SECRET (CONTINUED - -
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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.