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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
SECURITYINFORMATION - -
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,3 Dec. - 8:30 AM,i< Dec. 7
TEMOF DATE - CTO
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
An agent of OSO/Buenos Aires suspected of having Soviet Both OSO stations are
Intelligence connections has reported to OSO/Montevideo investigating further
that Argentine police arrested and interrogated him under and will furnish further
torture in an effort to extort a confession which. would reports.
have named the OSO Station Chief in Buenos Aires as an
organizer of the unsuccessful Argentine coup d'etat of
28 September.
The possibility of giving increased intelligence support It was suggested that
to the Office of International Trade, Dept. of Commerce, Commerce might request
has been discussed at a meeting called by ORR'. Since CIA to furnish appro-
Commerce is not a member of the IAC and therefore receives priate information in
no regular CIA dissemination, present support is confined the, form of finished
to selected raw reports passed to the OIT Enforcement intelligence, after
Branch, which has special clearance - s; y clearance of each item
with the'CIA office
concerned.
Training
On 26 Nov, the Office of Training inaugurated the new
Indoctrination Course that will now be given weekly for
new employees in conjunction with the weekly Agency
Security Briefings. Approximately 120 persons attended
this first week's indoctrination. The indoctrination
introduces the new employee to the basic ideas and language
of intelligence in general, and to the Scope,,Mission and.
Internal Organization of CIA in particular, It costs the
new enployee one-half workday.
Project AEROFOIL - Project conducted for FDS/OSO involving
the training of 4 deep cover agents from Iron Curtain
countries i: continuing and will in all probabiliy extend
through January 1952. (CONTINUED)
TOP SECRET * g '7 nEC 1951

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