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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
" ~~TOP SECRET .,,,
SECURITY INFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,26 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 27 Nov.
~TEOF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO 'Cont'd.
Alarmed by Polish Embassy inquiries, French Intelligence OSO/Paris has been
has asked OSO/Paris to transport to the US Zone/Germsy instructed to urge
the former Polish Commercial Attache in Cairo and his the French to dispose
wife, both now defected, whom they have been debriefing of the Poles in the
with negative results. OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany.
-Poles in October with similar negative results but paid
them and provided a live letterdrop ir. Paris, in case
Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con-
tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors over to the
French.
US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air
trary to Air Force instructions in permitting his as- Force in Washington to
sistant to continue contact with Otto Skorzeny, authorize the Air At-
tache to permit con-
tnued contact.
Air Commodore James A. Easton, Aest. Ciei.of.the British
Secret Service, will arrive in Washington from Tokyo on
16 Dec. and depart for London on 18 Dec. He has no
official business to discuss with CIA but hopes to pay
courtesy calls on D/DCI and DD/P on 17 December.
Dr. Danios Morali, psychologist and Chief Assessment
Officer of French Intelligence, who has been conferring
with CIA assessment and security officers, is now visiting
universities in New York and Chicago. He will be in
Washington about 5 December for a final visit before
returning to Paris.
OPC
The annual convention of the CIA-supported International
Federation of World Veterans' Organizations is scheduled
to open in Belgrade on 27 Nov. Eightee countries will
TOP SECRET (CMImNUED), .COPY # L OF 6.

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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.