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