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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. 19 …A six-man CIA-controlled Albanian agent team crossed the border into Greece on 3 September…
  • p. 28 …Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved prospects of controlling Bulgarian intelligence activities in Northern…
  • p. 30 …d) On a scouting mission to Shi Cheng Tao, the CIA-controlled Korean fishing vessel SEA…
  • p. 73 …Two OSO agents have returned to Salzburg from a mission into Hungary during which they buried…
  • p. 76 …time mission to Sofia, where he will recruit a resident agent. OPC A CIA-controlled guerrilla…
  • p. 139 …Joint' American Nilitary Mission to Aid Turkey(JAAT) as cover for CIA-controlled Paramilitary operations in…
  • p. 174 …known in official US quarters, conferred "in strictest confidence" with the BGMARQUE Chief of Mission on…
  • p. 234 …This is aonersnot mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred the…
TOP SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG~
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,17 Nov. - 8:50 AM,18 Nov. -
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO' SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
18.persons have been arrested to date in the current anti-
Communist campaign in Greece and 20 more are detained in
their homes. In addition, 2 elaborately concealed W/T
installations have been raided, in one o-f.which messages
and cipher materials were found, although the 'operator
destroyed some documents before committing suicide. The
loss of these facilities and personnel area serious blow
to the Greek Communist Party.- .
In discussions with Maj. Gen. Robert Taylor: senior US Gen. Taylor agreed
officer in the Northern Command of SHAPE, Mr. Gerald Miller to discuss the matter
and Mr. Richard Helms brought up the matter of complaints by with Adm. Brind's
Scandinavian intelligence services at being pressed by SHAPE intelligence officer
for intelligence reports duplicating information already in an effort to ar-
furnished to 00. - range for orderly
distribution of in-
telligence to the .ap-
propriate Allied
elements and to reduce
pressure on the
Scandinavian services.
Ambassador to Yugoslavia George Allen is to present Mr.
Andrew F. Kristovich, Chief of .OSO/Belgrade, to Minister of
Interior Rankovic on 17 Nov. in an effort to establish CIA
liaison with Yugoslav Intelligence.
British representatives in Finland report that the Finnish OSO is attempting
Diet has decided to return to Soviet custody all 3 Estonians to ascertain the
who recently escaped into Finland, allegedly ,from Soviet true situation.
concentration camps. Although 1 of the 3 is believed to be
a provocateur, Swedish Intelligence had offered to arrange
for the release of the others to OSO.
TOP SECRET .(CONTINUED) . N 7
Of-- NOV 17 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.