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