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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
SECURITY INiORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
%TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,4 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 5 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
OSO has reached agreement with French Intelligence on
recruitment and training in France of 2 or more 3-man
teams of Bulgarian agents for operations into:Bulgaria
in early summer 1952. The aide of Bulgarian Gen. Damian
Velchev will act as principal agent for the project.
A key Communist arrested last week in Athens states that OSO/Athens is at-
the radio operator who committed suicide when trapped was tempting to locate
in charge of the illegal Communist organization in Athens. these transmitters
He addes that 3 additional secret transmitters are in before they can be
reserve. placed in operation.
Gen. Umberto Broccoli, Chief of the Italian Combined Conference dates and
Intelligence Services, has accepted CIA s. nvitation . agenda will be recom-
to visit Washington for discussions. in early January. ' mended to DD/P after
OSO/OPC coordination.
OPC
Four Poles, 3 Russians, 1 German and 1 Czech have arrived
at the political action school covertly .established in the
US by CIA as a democratic counterpart to the Lenin Institute.
All the men in this first class of students are of a high
caliber and .the group includes a graduate engineer, a former
Soviet Air Force colonel, a former Germany Army major. and a
Russian poet. It is hoped that I more students will be
added to the class within the next 2 weeks. a
The head of the League of Freedom Loving Lawyers, a CIA- -
subsidized organization working in the East Zone of Germany,
has been asked to make intelligence reports to the embryonic
intelligence organization of the West Germsan. government. He
has been assured that he will not be questioned about his .
sources. A procedure has been set up whereby the head of the
Lawyer's group will submit his briefs to an OPC case officer
for scrutiny by S& W before 'handing them over to the DEC 4 1951
German intelligence unit. (CONTINUED) COPY #/ OF 7

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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.