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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 SECURITY INFORNATION DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM,28 Nov.- 8:30 AM, 29 Nov. ,TE OF DATE ATO CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC Madame Chiang Kai-shek, apparently in hopes of making her views. known in official US quarters, conferred "in strictest confidence" with the BGMARQUE Chief of Mission on 18 Nov. and 25 Nov. 1951. 'During the first conference she expressed great concern re the activities of the Political Dept. of. the Ministry of National Defense, headed by Chiang Ching-kuo, the Generalissimo's eldest son. She blames many of Nationalist China's present and past difficulties on Political Dept. personnel, Specifically clauiing that any guerrilla effort sponsored by the Political Dept. is doomed to failure, she also suggested that thetMilitary Assistance Advisory Group would be unable to accomplish its mission as long as the political commissar system interferes with the command structure of Nationalist armed forces. During the second conference she speficacly stated the following items were the current views of the Political Dept.: a. Take all American aid and attempt to obtain control. b. Put pressure on Premier to form alliance to oust Governor. c. Remove sole obstacle between themselves and the Gimo-- The Madame. d. Obtain control over all hostels. e. Try and remove Gen. Huang Ping Yen. f. Try. and obtain control over China Broadcasting Co. via Tong. Ambassador Caffery has heartily endorsedCIA's Egyptian emer- gency plan on condition that it is cleared-through the Palace. A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador, Mr. Burton Beiry of the Dept. of State, and Mr. Kermit Roosevelt of CIA; ., The plan was outlined in general terms to the British Ambassador 'nd the meeting was satisfactory to all concerned. At the request of'Mr. Caffery, Mr. Roosevelt saw Hassan Youssef Pasha, Chief of the Royal Cabinet, on 27 Nov. The above information has been relayed to Mr. Matthews and to Mr. McGhee. TOP SECRET O
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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.