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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 DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM, 11 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 1 2 Sept. 1TE OF DATE ATO )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION OSO Bucharest aubhorities brought to trial Eraldo Pintori, a clerk of the Italian Legation, with nine others on charges of "espionage operated by the Vatican together with American, British, Italian, and Swiss officials". Pintori was a member of a courier chain using Italian diplomatic pouch channels and is known to have transmitted Vatican funds to the former Papal Nuncio in Bucharest. He was known to the former Chief, OSO Bucharest, but was not used operationally. He is believed to be unaware that OSO exploited the courier system for a time. The British High Commissioner to Southeast Asia recently sought a meeting with the Sultan of Jogjakarta to ofBer British assistance in an intelligence training program. The Sultan, a key figure in OSO plans to gain eventual control of Indonesian security and intelligence forces, declined on the grounds that he could not, as a private citizen, reply to such an offer. OSO Djakarta believes he prefers to cooperate with the u.S. A Chinese claning to represent a minor Chinese Political party has proposed to OSO Through a State political officer in Hong. Kong that the U.S. support a conference in Thailand which would declare opposition to the Communist regime in China and undertake anti-Communist political and propaganda work. Primary OPC-interest has been recognized in studying the proposal, and State has been advised for the information of its Policy and Planning Staff. After presenting a letter to D/DCI from-General Truscott on 10 September, Mr. T. L. Squier of HICOG was scheduled to have meetings with OSO on Tuesday morning, OPC Tuesday afternoon, and OCI.Wednesday. -E(CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. SEP 111951 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.