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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.
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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.