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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-
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 23 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 24 Nov.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Contid.)
Reshuffle of the Norwegian Cabinet has resulted increased
influence of the Minister of Justice, who tavors voluntary
return of the Soviet defector Kliukin to the USSR over re-
leasing him for US-British interrogation. The -Chief of
Norwegian Intelligence. is taking the matter up directly with
the Prime Minister in the absence of the Defense Minister,
who has supported the OSO view but is retiring in January.
OPC
A fifth W/T message was received frog the remaining CIA
agent team in nerthern Albania en 14 November, requesting
food and winter clothing for 4 men. Bad weather conditions
have prevented a reaupply drop during this month. However,
the team: vill designate a drop zone in- :subsequent message
for resuyply" during the next moon perioda'
Approximately 40 veterans, representing those United Nations
fighting in Korea, will leave on 30 November for Paris to
attend a 3-day program arranged by the UN, In the 2 days
following the UN program, representatives of the CIA-
sponsored International Federation of World Veterans,
Organizations will contact members of. the; group, with.a
view to securing the ultimate adherence ,ofthe UN veterans
as an organized affiliate. The cost. of this trip, arranged
at the suggestion of CIA, is being defrayed jointly by
Defense and the UN.
MISCELLANEOUS
Dr. Langer will attend the course at Sandia 10 through
15 December.
TOP SECRET
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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.