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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
SECURITY INFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 26 Nov.- 8:30 AM, 27 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT -ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
be represented. Attendance, including members of the press,
is expected to approach 150. Sherman'Ewing, Chairman of the
newly organized World Veterans Fund, Inc. and a CIA agent
in the Federation, will be among thosepresent.
CIA is preparing a covert counter-attack to the recent
diatribe by' Vishinsky against the Mutual Security Act.
The Intelligence Research Division of the British Foreigh
Office, has offered its channels for use in the campaign.
A Chinese barber at CIA's Saipan paramilitary training The field is being
base has been reported a suspected Nationalist agent. queried as to the
His family in Hong Kong is concerned about his where- action being taken
abouts and has demanded a letter from him. If .this is and instructed to keep
not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed.
throngh the Hong Kong police to ascertai nhis whereabouts
or otherwise investigate with a resultant threat to the.
security of the Saipan base.
A diversionary raid on the coast of Chgkiang Province
carried out by CIA-directed Nationalis guerrillas on
13 November resulted in 30 Communists killed, 10 woluided
and 3 captured. No casualties were suffered by the
guerrillas.
A contact team was successfully dropped to a guerrilla
force in east central Fukien Province by, a.Chinese
Nationalist Air Force plane in a CIA-directed operation
on 15 November. . Twenty-eight thousand leaflets were
dropped over Fukien in a CIA-directed operation on 15-16
November.
(CONTINUED)
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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.