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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.

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  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
TOP SECRET
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
-D8:30 AM, 19 Nov. 8:30 AM, 20 Nov.
ATEOF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (COnt'd)
delegated to intervene with the Greeks'n a
restrained form". It is noteworthy;, as apparent
during current arrests of Greek Communists,
that the British Police. Mission has not even
seen to the equipment of the Greek Police with
such basic items as tear gas.
Lacking a secure winter base, an OSO agent
teary has return to Greece after four months
of operation in Albania, killing .seven Albanian
Security troops while losing one man in a
skirmish at the frontier. The team will return
in the.spring.
DD/A
Mr. Wolf had a conference this morning with
Mrs. Rosenberg relative to military personnel
required through 30 June 1952. She ha, asked
Major General E. C. Lynch to handle the details,
and General Lynch has stated that the total
requirement of 21420 individuals would be
approved. General Davison is preparing the
necessary documents and will finalize future
procedures.with General Lynch. The question
of military personnel for fiscal year 1953 was
discussed at length and procedure is being
developed to meet our requirements as soon as
they are more definite.
(CONTINUED) COPY OF 5. N0V 1 9 1951
TOP SECRET

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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.