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Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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,4 Dec.
ATE OF DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
Miscellaneous
28 Nov 51 Chairman, ICIS DCI Mr. whearty forwards terms of reference for CIA approval q DJar
which he recommends be established for an analysis
pertaining to sabotage and subversion.. This analysis
would correspond to the military analysis established
in the NSC Directive concerning ia pr'ject to provide
a more adequate basis for planning for the security of
the United States".
Dr. Millikan has discussed with Mr. Willetts of the
Rockefeller Foundation that Foundation's, possible
support to the Current Digest of the Soviet Press.
If the Board of the Foundation approves of this, our
support in the amount of $8,542 for FY 1952 will be
withdrawn. -
Gordon Gray has requested that PSB be allotted one DD/A
GS-16 slot in order that he might employ Mr. Tracey
Barnes. to succeed Gen. Cutler. Mr. Barnes is now a
grade 16 in the Office of the Under Secretary of the
Army.
TOP SECRET .Lit'f _.._ HC 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.