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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
TOP SECRET
SECURITYINFRMATIONI Dl
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 26 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 27 Nov. -
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OsO
The German Chief of ZIPPER reports that Chancellor
Adenauer is ready for the West German Government to
begin taking over the operation at any time. Adenauer's
Assistant for Personnel has submitted to ZIPPER a draft .
proposal for establishment of a German Intelligence
Service with an annual budget of 20,000,000 'DN ($4,500,000)
which follows the present ZIPPER organization and states
that US sponsors have agreed to assume a considerable portion
of the budget during a transition period. The German Chief
of ZIPPER considers that the transfer should take place no
later than the date of ratification of a contractual agreement
(1 July 1952 in his estimate) whether or not German military
contingents are then in existence. It is. anticipated that ,
the OSO-ZIPPER relationship thereafter wiU continue .as at
present. -
Consistently bad weather during the last moon-period has Since dispatch next
prevented dispatch of an OSO-Dutch Intelligence agent team month would make
by air into Bulgaria. their survival under
winter living condi-
tions doubtful, the
operation has been
postponed until early
spring.
A network of some 50 agents aboard various merchant ships
has been established to maintain intelligence coverage of
maritime targets in the Black Sea area as, a joint CIA-
Italian Intelligence operation. Participating to the
extent of $1,250 monthly, CIA may furnish information re
quirements. and will receive. the entire ;intelligence
production plus operational informatin.- The gesu]ts of
a previous limited operation of the same type'warrant the
anticipation of successful coverage in substantial volume
TOP SECRET (CONT-NUE) 24 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.