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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…
A TOP SECRET -
SECURITYJNFORMATION
DI.RECTOR'S LOG
OF RAE 8:30 AM, 15 Nov.- 8: 30 "AM, 16 Nov.
TE OF DT
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT % ACTION
050
The Chief of the Dutch Internal Security Service,(BVD), Since OSO dofs not favor a
who learned during a trip .to Brussels that 'tripartite program of this kind in
cooperation (between U. S., U. K.,-and Belgium) was Holland, and in view of his
the rule", has told OSO/The Hauge that he is "overjoyed" previous jockeying for
to hear this and thinks a similar arrangement in; current.tripartite opera-
Holland may have been planned. tions, the Chief of the BVD
has been advised that there
are no across-the-board
tripartite arrangements.
Chief, FDP/OSO and Mr. Michael G. Mitchell conferred
- with Captain Fabian, Admiral Carney's chief intelligence
officer, to complete administrative arrangements for.
Mr. Mitchell's assignment to Admiral Carney's staff to
conduct liaison with the Italian Intelligence Services.
Captain Fabian's acceptance of and satisfaction with
this arrangement ie of major importance to CIA in pro-
te-cting the existing working relationship wiil, the Italians.
An OSO agent who enjoys close personal relations with
prominent officials of the Yugoslav goverinint; and has
been decorated by Tito for services rendered to the.
Yugoslav people as an American walfare official has.-
returned to New York after five years of valuable
economic and political reporting. 00 hopes this
agent ;will now agree to accept one of several official
offers to serve as adviser to Yugoslav commercial enter-
prises.
Mr. John Bruce Lockhart, who is replacing Mr. M. A. C.
Silverwood-Cope as British Secret Service liaison
representative in Washington, will arrive about 28 November.
Mr. Cope will return to London at the end of the year.
TOP SECRET
SECURITYINFORMATION (CONTINUED)SCOPY '/OF 5 NOV 15 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.