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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
- TOP SECRET
NY IFDRMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,3D Nov - 8:30 AM, 1 Dec -
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - - ACTION
'9 Nov 30 Nov W. Park Armstrong DCI Mr. Armstrong notes in carrying out Staters program
under the provisions of NSC,29 (Security of Strategically
Important Industrial Operations. irn Foreign Countries)
State intends to request from CIA 'assistance in the conduct'
of physical security surveys and in the development of #lans
for the improvement of security. In addition, State may
request the initiation of intelligence surveillance or the
institution of covert counter-sabotage measures specifically
in relation to the expanded NSC 29 program. DD/P
6BNov 30 Nov Gen. Bolling DCI A background sketch on Capt. Kenneth S. Giniger has been
received from Gen. Bolling. DD/A
The Acting Sec'y of Defensebas sent our letter con- DD/P
cerning Fort Randolph to the Sec'y of the -Anyre-
questing that he assist the DCI to acquire this
property if it is found that (a) it may appropriately
be made available; (b) project is 'approved by State;
(c) it might logistically be supported by the
Caribbean command with costs to be reimbursed by CIA.
TOP SECRET 30 NOVEMBER 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.