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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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“Cairo”8 pages

  • 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
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,9 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 10 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
its efforts despite recant setbacks.
A second W/T contact was made with a remaining CIA agent tepm
in Northern Albania on 5 Nov. The message said that the 2-
man resupply drop was received but that half of the supplies
fell into the hands of the enear. It is presumed that the
message refers to the 15 Oct. drop of 26 containers and 2 W/T
operators.
An inspection of all cache locations in the US Zone of Austria Arrangements have
was carried out by a staff member unfamiliar with them, using been made to relocate
the written descriptions of the cache sites, He located all- this,equipment else-
the sites easily and found that one had been tampered with, where.
although the equipment had not been removed. -
On 1 Nov., the opening day of the Communist-sponsored World
Peace Council in Vienna, members of the 01% subsidized
Union of Construction and Wood Workers put up 6200. posters
in the Western sections of Vienna satirizing the "Peace
Dove" theme.. An additional 20,000 small stickers were
put up in the Soviet sectors of the city. The Austrian
police. arrested 16 Union members during the operation,. but
released them all iimediately.
TOP SECRET : .s -

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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.