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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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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