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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
SdU11Y INFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG -
ATEOF DATE 8:30 'AT4,3 Dec. - 8:30 AM,4 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
Training Cont'd.
Project HALFWAY-SUNBOW - Project for FE/OPCaid FDZ/OSO
involving the training of 2 groups of Indonesians with
8 in each group. This Project will continue through
January, 1952.
Project ISOLATION - A desirable location for, the air
strip at ISOLATION has been determined. A project is
being prepared for submission to PRC for construction
of the strip at an estimated cost of $200,000.
OPC
The submarine cable linking Chefoo and Dairen was cut by
a CIA-controlled Korean fishing vessel at 0220 local time
on 30 November.
Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for
Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo. In 2
discussions between Mr. Roosevelt and Hassai Youssef, Chief of
the Royal Egyptian Cabinet, it was decided that Mr. Roosevelt
would form a US committee to work on the program while Hassan
would select a group to form an Egyptian committee. Mr. Roosevelt
will keep Hassan informed of developments in progress through the
US.Counselor of Embassy in Cairo and at the appropriate time,
Hassan will submit the program to King Farouk for approval.
Stressed immediately will .be assistance to Palace Security and
Intelligence forces and a propaganda and political program
designed to improve the situation in Egypt and get better
publicity in the US for Egypt and Farouk. Ambassador Caffery
has fully approved these plans.
A Polish resistance group has notified CIA of plans to ex-
filtrate 2 men from Poland for training, 1 in paramilitary
activity and the other in radio communications. The Polish
group is trying to set up a permanent route over which future
recruits can travel out of Poland.
TOP SECRET (CONTtpE) D f DEC 3 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.