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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. 35 …the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported…
  • p. 46 …FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION ITEMS FROM COL. HANSEN Conversed with Drew Pearson at Doctors Hospital- late…
  • p. 70 …a meeting in either Washington or Col. Hansen New York with not more than a dozen…
  • p. 164 …on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a…
  • p. 172 …the press. Both - Col. Edwards and Col. Hansen advised informally that we' could not give significant…
  • p. 204 …Agency has requested our comment on Col. Hansen for direct an unsigned letter that Agency received…
TOP SECRET -? L
W SECURITY INFORMATION .
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM,
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM To SUBJECT ACTION
O05
Immediate deployment of the 560th Air Resupply and Since the above was
Communications Wing as scheduled to Wheelus Field in ascertained unofficially
Libya, where it was to have been used in support of an intensive effort is
V CIA operations, has been deferred, if not cancelled being made to determine
outright, apparently as a result of action taken on officially the facts of
19 Nov. by the Secy of State on a strong British the matter
protest against the movement to Libya-at this time.
Serious Interference with CIA plans will result.
Quoting a reliable Chinese, the Department of State
has reported that Robert W. McCann, a US businessman
arrested in Tientsin by Chinese Communist authorities,
is undergoing severe and intensive int rogation aimed
at. establishing his involvement in espionagerin addition
to their clear case against him on a charge of ;unauthorized
export of capital. McCann, a covert 00, agent who was in-
volved in certain Tientsin operations, is resisting interro-
gation, but the informant believes he may crack under the
pressure. He knows the identities of three CIA officers.
A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been
headquarters in -Verdun has reported his recruitment by an authorized to accept
attache of the Hungarian Legation in Paris to secure US the French Security
military documents for delivery to a clandestine courier. proposal to exploit
the case jointly with
the participation of
U.S. CIC.
(CONTINUED)
- TOP SECRET
NOV 21 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.