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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
SECURITY INFORMATION -CI
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 23 Nov. - 8:30 AM,24 Nov. .
ATE OF DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - - ACT'ON
OSO. -
The .Operations Section of the Swedish Air Force "is
cultivating the Assistant Soviet "ir Attache in Stockholm
with a view to inducing him to defect, although there has
been no indication of susceptibility on his'part. However,
the Swedish Air Force has requested the US Air Attache to
furnish immediate air transportation if needed. OSO/
Stockholm is following the case through the US service
attaches and attempting to deterine the relation-of
Swedish 'Intelligence to the case with a .viev to influ-
encing its course.
Chief/NEA met with Mr. Edwin Iacke, newly-appointed
Ambassador in charge of aid programs for the Arab States
and Israel, to offer his assistance durin'g his say in
the Middle East and to inforia of possible'need fir his
cooperation in arranging aid to police and.security agencies
in Middle Eastern countries. Mr. Locke was entirely co
operative and requested that field contact with CIA be
arranged for him.
Quoting OSO/Addis Ababa, the US Ambassador- to Ethiopia has
reported that revolutionary tendencies are growing daily.
Information forwarded through OSO channels is somewhat
less alarming. Although OSO/Addis Ababa has been reporting
such trends for some time, the station predicts no revolu--
tionary action for at least a year.
OSO has invited the Chief of Special Opertions, Duteh
Internal Security Service, To Washington for 1 weeks of
discussion and training beginning about 15 January 1952.
He wishes to discuss his operational experience with 050 -
specialists and intends to select training materials for
the instruction of members of his own organization.
(CONTIINUED)
TOP SECRET - NOV 23 191* v".NOV 21951

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