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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. 163 …A Los Angeles firm has agreed to furnish deep cover for an OSO agent who will…
TOP SECRET
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 16 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 17 Nov.- \ t
TE OF DATE-
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OSO
The Syrian Military Attache in Washington has The Military Attache is being milked
clandestinely approached OSO to request U. S. of a]lpertinent information in a
support of his plan for a coup d'etat in Syria. manner which percludes any implica-
tion that CIA or the U. S. govern-
ment might conceivably lend itself
to a proposal of this nature. A full
report willbe made as soon as
available.
Representatives of FIM/0SO briefed Coloziel Philip
B. Stiness, successor to Lt. Colonel John Lanterman
as U.S. Army Attache in.Budapesti just prior to
his departure from Washington. Colonel Stiness-
regretted that Army failure to notify OSO' of his
assignment had prevented more intensive discussion.
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On 14 November Mr. Frank Pace, General Thomas
Handy, and Colonel H. H. Howes were conducted
on a tour of the DRC(G) by Lt. -General Truscott
and the Chief, DRC(G). They appeared to be
favorably impressed. -
The first issue of a news bulletin to be published The request is being
by the CIA-controlled National Committee- for a Free: Albania considered by officials
will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA, the State De-
Albanian National Independence Day on 28 Nosvember. The Partment and represent-
bulletin will contain a summary of overt TCFA activities atives of the British
and a statement of its aims. CIA's liaison agent, with SIS in Washington.
the NCFA reports that the British plan to mark the event
- - TOP SECRET COPY f OF . NOV 16 1951
SECURITYINFORMATION -' .

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