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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
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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