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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
SECURITYINFORMATIOIi
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 20 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 21 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Continued)
acting as personal representative of the DOI, the
operation of his eight-man counterespionage net,
which investigates Soviet and Soviet Satellite
agents in Holland. The Prince declares that his
men know "eight times more than the Ihitch Security
Service" about foreign enemy agents but; lacking
confidence in the Service, do not normally pass
information to it. Despite the Prince's confidence in
his group, he will accept CIA evaluation of its product
as a guide to future requests for aid.
The British Secret Service, with the concurrence of
the Foreign Office and the British High Commissioner
in Germany, has agreed with CIA to informing the
French Secret Service that Chancellor Adenauer and
Social Democratic leader Schumacher appear to
accept ZIPPER as the future German Intelligence
Service and to introducing the French to the Chief
of ZIPPER on the same basis on which he met the
British.
- De Bardeleben, Chief of OSO/London, returned on
20 November for a month's home leave.
OPC
In their most recent conference with a cutout in
Teheran, CIA's two principal agents, in Iran claim to
have been responsible for the postponement of elections
until a more advantageous date, 18 December, the .5th
anniversary of the liberation of Azerbaijan. They
also claim to have squelched Tudeh plans to take over
a garment factory and a shoe factory, to have
TOP SECRET - - COPY # / OF 5. NOV 20 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.