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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 e A d! OGI
DIRECTOR'S LOG.
TE OF DATE 5:8T30AM,29 Nov. - 8:30 AM,30 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OPC
50,000 posters covertly exploiting Vishinsky's recent
attack of insomnia,. induced by the West's.peace proposals*
have been distributed in Paris and other large cities in
France by the CIA-supported Paix et Liberte Organization.
Capped by a. caricature of a sneering Vishinsky, the posters
carry a statement to the effect that although France and
50 other nations had. advanced sircere peac66,proposals,
these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites.
Kingsbury Smith, European representative of 'the International
News Service, is cooperating in a plan to pick this up as a
news item for overt international distribution
OSO
A former French Communist, now a source of OSO/Paris, reports
that "all" French police have been instructed to work on
identifying all "American" agents oper ting in France, He -
speculates that the order may have bee given in anticipation
of Gen. De Gaulle's coming to power and subsequently investigat-
ing police "subservience" to US officials. OSO/Paris comments
that the French Security Service, which allegedly issued the
order, does not have jurisdiction over.all French police and
recommends that the report be treated 6iith reserve.
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TOP SECRET I -i Nov 215d , 0V2195

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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.