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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.

TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ITE OF DATE 8:30 AM, IO Sept-- 8:30 AM, 11 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OS0
Photocopies of two official documents on Czech planning of
the Oatis case have been recovered. Dissemination will be deferred
pending receipt of the film itself. Detailed plans are being
prepared for further operational exploitation of the two
Czech defectors who furnished this material.
An official of the Yugoslav Embassy in Paris, who has been
conducting liaison with the French Communist Party, has
defected through Mr. Charles Bohlen. OSO Paris is arranging
for his interrogation in Oermany.
Mrs. Antonio Riva, wife of an Italian executed for espionage
by the Chinese Communists last month together with his
associate, Yamguchi, has stated to the press in Hong Kong
that her husband was innocent of espionage but Yamaguchi was
"a very consistent informer for the successor to OSS".
Yamaguchi was in fact an agent of the ESD #4lsorganization
but has had no contact with CIe since the Communist occupation
of Peiping. Colonel Barrett, USMA in Taipei, formerly USMA
in Peiping, is reported seeking a meeting with Mrs. Riva. 050
believes it probable that Colonel Barrett recruited Yamaguchi,
together with Riva. and others, in Peiping and will attempt to
quash further publicity about the net. -
The AD/SO arrived in Tokyo on 8 September.
OPC
Chinese Third Force Leader, Chang Fa Kwei, has reason to believe
that there is a Communist plant among the second class of students
now at CIA's Saipan para-military training base. Chang does
not know the suspect's name but knows him to have been recruited
by Wu Shao Ming who .saw him depart from Tokyo Airport. Chang
believes the suspect was sent from the Ta Hwa Watch Company
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # L OF 5- SEP 10 1951

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