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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.
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TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, }4Dec. - 8:30 AM, 5 Dec. CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO The OSO agent interrogated by Argentine police in an SO continues investi- effort to implicate the Chief, OSO/Buenos Aires, in gation of the facts the unsuccessful September coup in Argentina states and implications of the that he admitted to connections with US -,nbassador case, including the Braden and former cultural attache Griffiths on inter- position of the Chief of nal political matters but denies that he revealed any Station, who is now en route knowledge of the functions of the Chiefof Station to the US for home leave. beyond identifying him as an Embassy official con- cerned. with Communist matters. ie adds, however, that he signed some 20 statements under duress without knowledge of their contents. The Chinese Nationalist Ministry of Nat'l Dei'ense has The attention of IAC furnished through OSO/Yokosuka a blatantly fabricated, member agencies will be though superficially plausible, eye-witness account of called to the report as an a Soviet atomic bomb test in the Novaya Zemlya area. outstanding example of one Since the report may well crop up elsewhere and oc- type of fabrication now casion inquiry to CIA, the D/DCI has been informed in under study by OSO. detail. Hans Globke, Chancellor Adenauer's Chief of Internal Affairs, is undertaking a 6-month study.of administrative problems involved in the German takeover of ZIPPER, which should therefore coincide with the signing of the cortractual agreement. Blobke recognizes great diffi-culties in German financing of ZIPPER and is grateful for the US offer to dontinue some form of. subsidy, emphasizing that the German, Government desires close US-ZIPPER workingrelations to continue as well. He believes, and sthinks Adenauer agrees, that ZIPPER will not direct resistance activities; which should be assigned to the Defense Ministry. (CONTINUED) TOP SECRET .COPY # 1 OF 7. DEC 4 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.