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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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.
xi
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TOP SECRET I -i Nov 215d , 0V2195

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