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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
SkCUITY -INFORMAT101i
DiRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM,
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Continued) -
Gen. Bolling, after thorough consideration of all Since Gen. Bolling has
relevant factors, has-declined to authorize the now twice disapproved
Army Attache in Budapest to assist OSO/Budapest in this request and in view
caching two Li/T sets. of the impending relief.
of the Army Attache, no
further action is advisable
Preliminary interrogation of the Greek Communists
arrested in Athens confirms that the recent action
is a serious blow to the illegal mechanism of the
entire Greek Communist Party. Its full extent will
appear after further interrogation and analysis of
messages exchanged over a long period with Communist
leaders abroad.
A Los Angeles firm has agreed to furnish deep cover
for an OSO agent who will operate in Finland.
OPC
A MIG-15 wing tank picked up off the North Korean coast
by a CIA-controlled. fishing boat has been turned over to
the 5th Air Force. The wing tank will enable the Air
Force for the first time to compute the'maximuin range of
a MIG-15. The 5th Air Force has expressed great apprecia-
tion and given CIA full credit for procuring it.
Swiss authorities have granted a permit for the establish-
ment in Zurich of a commercial counselling service which will
serve as a deep cover organization for OPC economic, warfare
projects in Switzerland. This is the first concrete advance
in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland.
(CONTINUED)
TOP SECRET - - .NOV 2
0337 i s , NOV 1 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.