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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
TOP SECRET
SECURITYIMIXAnu.t
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 1 Novi -- 8:30 AM, 15 Nov.
TE OF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
Nyi was a key man in the Li Mi operation. He possibly Efforts are now being made
tried to wreck the operation and he was certainly. to arrange for Nyi's entry
responsible for failure to send Li Mi an airdrop at into the Philippines.
a critical moment. OPC Bangkok is convinced that Nyi Ultimate disposal will be
is a high level intelligence agent working either for considered thereafter.
KMT or the British.
A CIA-sponsored group in West Germany has released to
the. press evidence that 31 members of a Communist
Youth organization have been secretly tried for
sabotage and failure to prevent large scale anti-
Communist propaganda activities during the East
Berlin Communist Youth Festival. ,In addition, the
same organization released.the fact that members of
the Communist youth organization from the Western
Zone were being taken to the Soviet Zone of Germany
and given paramilitary and political training.
Cache material in the Western Zone of Austria, which
a recent inspecti6n showed to have been disturbed, was
relocated on 17 October.
The Minister of Interior of Chile on 5 November pro- The Santiago station of CIA
-hibited the Communist-sponsored Hemispheric Pro-Peace is now mounting a propagandai
Congress, planned to be held in Santiago during November. campaign to support this
This action was taken on the basis of a report by a' action and counteract any
high. Chilean official based on data supplied to him by Communist attempts to have
the Chilean Congress over-
ride the Minister' s decision
As a result of CIA operations during the, past several
months, the Chilean Communist party has been .split into
2 factions. The splinter group, the Chilean Nationalist
Communist party, was formally launched on-7 November.
This group, whichlznp to receive support from CIA, is
strongly opposed to Cominform and Moscow domination. COPY # / OF 5

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