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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. 108 …Rimanian King Michael has issued a hurried summons for Visoianu, President of the Rumanian National Committee…
  • p. 109 …Because of this, it is suspected that the British and King Michael may have made some…
  • p. 127 …C.King as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have Share Co. offered…
  • p. 141 …the US Merchant Marine Acad'ery at Kings Point, New York. He was well received and…
  • p. 155 …to the Panama Station requesting J. C. King, who arrives there on 21 Nov. to malke…
  • p. 178 …in .an accurate fore- cast of a probable coup d'etat prior to the King's…
  • p. 184 …time, Hassan will submit the program to King Farouk for approval. Stressed immediately will .be assistance…
  • p. 192 …Roosevelt have The intelligence requested that intelligence material of interest material and equipment to'King Faroul…
  • p. 196 …The King has written a letter ~to the Prime Minister agreeing in principle to the constitutiorial…
TOP SECRET
- SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
\TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 3) Nov - 8:30 AM, 1 Dec '
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
Ten thousand copies of a poster headed "Peace fighter Vishinsky
laughs, but our mothers weep" are now being distributed througha
out Western Germany by a CIA propaganda .network. Forty thousand
stickers bearing the same message are also being posted.
Two CIA-subsidized groups in Germany, the Fighting Group Against
Inhumanity and the Anti-Communist Organization of Nazi Victims,
held a successful mass meeting in West Berlin 7 Oct., to protest
sentences handed down against 18 high school boys in East Germany.
The boys received sentences totalling 130 years for crossing into
West Berlin during the Communist World Youth Festival in Aug. '51.
The Fighting Group Against Inhumanity also has distributed a poster
over West Berlin asking for freedom for 50,000 political prisoners
and 37,000 political deportees.
A message signed by Undersecretary of State Webb was .sent to the
CIA-controlled National Committee for a Free Albania on 28 Nov. in
acknowledgement of greetings from the Committee marking the celebra-
tion of Albanian Independence Day. Mention of the event appeared in
the NEW YORK TIMES and the NEW YORK HERALD TRIHJNE on 29 Nov.
At a meeting of OPC's State and Defense Department consultants on
28 Nov. to discuss formation of the unitedi front among Russian
Emigre groups, Isaac Don Levine called attention to one important.
aspect of the matter. Levine said that some Russian groups engaged
independently in clandestine activities are so confident of continued
OPC financial support that they have no hesitation- in obstructing the
formation of the Russian Political Center along lines acceptable to
OPC. It was the unanimous opinion of. the consultants that'in such
cases political considerations should preaominate and that OPC should,
at its discretion, withhold operational support from any potentially-
useful group in order to get its cooperation with the Political Center.
(CONTINUED)
- TOP SECRET LL...--.... in NOV30 1951

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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.