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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 -
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,21 Nov. - 8:30 AM,22 Nov.
ATE OF DATE
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
00
The Defector Reception Center (Germany) received on OSO is conducting prelimin-
19 Nov. a Soviet captain (a dental technician) who ary interrogation to deter-
defected in Berlin on 14 November. mine the defector's bona- .
fides. When these are
established, 00 will circulate
a request for requirements to
MISCELLANEOUS all IAC Agencies.
JIG has requested CIA participation in a briefing iD/SI
for Mr. Gray and key members of the PSB staffs
covering "Over-all soviet and Satellit~ Military
Capabilities". Our contribution will be "Soviet
Capability in the Field of Atomic Energy."
In. reply to our letter; the Comptroller General states DD/A
that there is legal objection to the payment toA
employees of CIA of retroactive increases in compensa-
tion equivalent to those authorized by PL 201.
The Bureau of the Budget has requested our comments DD/A
on a proposed Executive Order "Amending Regulations Colonel Edwards
Relating.to the Safeguarding of Vessels Harbors,
Ports and Waterfront Facilities of the United States".
Don Gonzales of the United Press has been asked to do
a feature story on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen
at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a preliminary inter-
view. In outlining his idea he spoke a eecifically of
the Dalles speech in New England and indicated he would
prefer to use that as a footing for hisUP article.
TOP SECRET __, o 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.