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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
SD' S IRFORMTON.
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,30 Nov. - 8:30 AM,l Dec.
AT OF DATE-
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
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The Army has arranged totransport to Okinawa the captured
Chinese Volunteer Corps (Korea) captain who was broughtto
the US for intensive interrogation in early August. Although
under AFSA sponsorship, the captain has been in the custody
of Contact Division. His departure will free facilities
which can beused to house a defector--a Soviet tank captain--
who now is living at the Virginia Plantation.
A sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee visited 'The visitors were shown
the-Defector Reception Center (Germany) on,20 Nov. 1951. some of the DRC(G)'s
The group was headed by Representative Francis E. Walter facilities, given a
(D., Penn.) and included Representatives Frank L. Chelf general picture of its
(D.,Ky.), Michael A. Feighan (D., Ohio), Angier L. Goodwin mission, and allowed to
(R., Mass.), and Chauncey W. Reed (R., Ill.)) 'They were talk with 2 contented
accompanied by their legislative counsel, Walter y. defectors, 1 a Soviet and
Besterman. the other a Czech. They
appeared to be favorably
impressed.
Through the British Foreign Office and State Dept. The DRC(G) has agreed to
representatives in Germany, the BBC has asked per- make its Soviet guests
mission to interview Soviet defectors at the DRC(G) available to the BBC
and to make records of their statements. Presumably, during the second week of
parts of these recordings will be beamed back to the December. Gen. Truscott
USSR by BBC. has approved this agree-
ment.
TOP SECRET ~.af , NOV 30 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.