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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.
“Headquarters”31 pages
- p. 11 …Forces in Germany."
OPC
Headquarters has received from the field for chemical
analysis, a sample of…
- p. 21 …forces have cut it off
from underground headquarters and requested, in view of
the extremely difficult…
- p. 28 …another agent recently arrived from the same headquarters.
Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved…
- p. 38 …Suggest you come as soon as feasible."
Headquarters has no further information oilthe matter to date…
- p. 40 …Chennault's secretary,
Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier,
passed a message to…
- p. 41 …OSO
The Chief Operations Officer of CIC/Trieste conferred with an
unidentified official at Headquarters of…
- p. 43 …Headquarters has no information on "candle", the subject of the
message the secretary passed"inadvertently to…
- p. 50 …reports that
the message misdelivered to BGMARQUE Headquarters
in Taipei by General Chennault's secretary was…
- p. 51 …conducted jointly with the State Security organization
headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security
has…
- p. 67 …At
headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution
channels.
COPY # of 5.
TOP…
- p. 86 …RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
Headquarters has authorized dGR Uto drop -2 guerrilla
contact teams…
- p. 98 …Tudeh leaders and the raiding of party' headquarters
where the police confiscated propaganda material, etc.
Our…
- p. 99 …This
proposal is being considered by Headquarters.
On 15 October, 2 guerrilla teams were dropped successfuy…
- p. 100 …Aerial photos
cdnfirmed the destruction of a North Koeah Army batallion
headquarters at the Mine and…
- p. 101 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the Government
Communications Headquarters, British' counterpart
of AFSA, will retire in…
- p. 104 …Plans and Training--
the executive and administrative headquarters, .(2)I Escape and
Evasion--new E & E…
- p. 105 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the British Goernment Communications
Headquarters, British counterpart of AFSAy will visit…
- p. 106 …and East Germany
have visited their West Berlin headquarters since 1949.
Forty-five thousand of these…
- p. 112 …Thomas that he be given assistance in:.establiahing the,
headquarters for the trust territories'in Saipan…
- p. 119 …in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters.
On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant…
- p. 122 …Washington in detail and
has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our
Hong Kong liaison…
- p. 131 …Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London,
will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951…
- p. 139 …OPC's facil ty at Camp Chinen,. Headquarters has
Okinawa, has requested authority to terminate the…
- p. 162 …A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been
headquarters in…
- p. 168 …Paris, in case
Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con-
tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors…
- p. 169 …If .this is and instructed to keep
not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed…
- p. 171 …The Spanish police officer in Barcelodna whd handles the Headquarters has decided
playback of a captured…
- p. 189 …Millard Lewis, A-2 USAFE, has informed Chief, OSO/ Headquarters has con-
Germany.' that a CIC…
- p. 194 …OPC
Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia-
tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London…
- p. 200 …in 1948 has been called to Party-
Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to
be restored…
- p. 209 …202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red
Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and…
- 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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