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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-
SECUITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 14 Nov- 8:30 AM,i5 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
00 (Cont'd)
had not informed 00 of this personnel change, there has.
been no opportunity to brief the new attache on OSO
representation in Budapest, possible operational collabor-
ation in the field, and local security problems to be
anticipated.
It now appears that U. S. Ambassador to Hungay Christian In view of adverse
M. Ravndal has not intended, in expressinghis high esteem security factors and in
for Mr. Robert D. Gahagen, Chief, OSO/Montevideo, during the belief that the
the Ambassador.' s recent assignment in Uruguay, to make Ambassador will not press
a formal request for Mr. Gahagen's transfer to duty in the matter, the proposed
Budapest and now feels that he may have gone' too far in transfer will be dropped.
his letter of commendation.
OSO ands British Secret Service representatives are cdordinat ng
jointly' with Norwegian Intelligence on action in the case.-
of a Soviet defector who crossed the Norwegian-USSR border
on 19 October- and whom the Norwegians will release to
US-British.custody for interrogation in Germany.
00
The Defector Reception Center (Germany) received on OS0 is conducting -pre-
13 November a former Senior Lieutenant in the Pdlish Army liminary interrogation
who defected on 7 November from the Eighth WOP (Border to determine the defe.c-
Guard) Brigade. tor' s bonafides.
OPC
OPC Taipei reported on 9 November 'that a~Walter Nyi was
identifying himself as associated' with the "Central
Information Bureau" which he described as "official
U.S. Government." Nyi further stated that he knew the
tree identity and nature of BGMIARQJE.
TOP SECRET
SECURITYINFORMATION (CONTINUED) Copy #/ of 5.' NOV 1 4 1951

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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.