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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. 19 …A six-man CIA-controlled Albanian agent team crossed the border into Greece on 3 September…
  • p. 28 …Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved prospects of controlling Bulgarian intelligence activities in Northern…
  • p. 30 …d) On a scouting mission to Shi Cheng Tao, the CIA-controlled Korean fishing vessel SEA…
  • p. 73 …Two OSO agents have returned to Salzburg from a mission into Hungary during which they buried…
  • p. 76 …time mission to Sofia, where he will recruit a resident agent. OPC A CIA-controlled guerrilla…
  • p. 139 …Joint' American Nilitary Mission to Aid Turkey(JAAT) as cover for CIA-controlled Paramilitary operations in…
  • p. 174 …known in official US quarters, conferred "in strictest confidence" with the BGMARQUE Chief of Mission on…
  • p. 234 …This is aonersnot mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred the…
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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