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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. 67 …July by his elder brother offering covert US assistance to maintain the autonomy of Tibet. The…
  • p. 84 …usefulness if the Dalai Lama remains in Tibet and, accordingly, that CIA could make no commitments…
  • p. 157 …ticable, and that we should a plane be flown into Tibet for the evacuatioi simply reiterate…
  • p. 158 …Lhasa, and other Chinese his exit from Tibet must be troops believed to be stationed along…
TOP SECRET
SECURITYINFORMATI0N
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,19 Nov.- - 8:30 AM, 20 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OP (Cont'd)
A German member of a small defection-inducement The field is investigating.
group in Berlin has been reported missing
since 6 November and may have been picked up
by ,the Soviets.
A CIA-controlled agent has just completeda
month's probationary period with what he
believes to be a covert Communist para-
military organization operating in Western
Germany. The agent has been sent to a
three-week training course at a school the
organization operates in Salzburg and it is
anticipated that at.-the conclusion of the
course he will be used as a courier between
the organization and covert Communist groups
in Austria, Italy, or Switzerland.
Between 28 and 31 October 105,000 copies of
"Animal Farm" were distributed through Austria
as an insertion in a CIA-subsidized newspaper.
A sellout at the news-stands necessitated an
extra run of 15,000 copies.
A message has beei received from the mother CIA's position on the matter,
of the Dalai Lama, stating that she is now con- as made known to the State
vinced that the Dalai Lama cannot leave Tibet Department, is that both sugg-
unless he is provided with extraordinary assistarice estions are entirely imprac-
by the U.S. Government. .She requests tha'either. ticable, and that we should
a plane be flown into Tibet for the evacuatioi simply reiterate our earlier
of the Dalai Lama, or that arms and ammunition position that, if the Dalai
be sent into Tibet sufficient to permit the Lama arrives in India, assis-
Dalai Lama and his party to leave in the .face tance, as previously offered,
of opposition from some 3,000 Chinese troops would be given him, but that
TOP SECRET' (CONTINUED) COPY r _L_ OF 5. NOV19 1951

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