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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.
“Mission Control”8 pages
- 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.