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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 - 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 under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.