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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 .
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
kTE OF' DATE 8:30 AM, 5 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 6 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION
Gen. Millard Lewis, A-2 USAFE, has informed Chief, OSO/ Headquarters has con-
Germany.' that a CIC source claims he can.deliver a firmed this commitment.
MIG-15 in return for a guaranteed payment of $125,000 OSO/Germany is following
to the pilot. OSO/Germany urged Gen. Lewis to pursue up another lead to pro-
the operation through his own .channels; until the lead cure a MIG-15 through a
can be investigated more carefully, and guaranteed group of Czechs in
payment on delivery. - Berlin.
OSI
RDB expects to make an official request that CIA prepare
for RDB with the assistance of other agencies an annual
summary of the status of USSR scientific research and
development. This summary will parallel, and.will be
used as background for, the RDB Consolidated Technical
Estimates. The date of completion of the summaxy, has
not been determined but will not be before 1 July 1952.
RDB would like to have the flow of current scientific
intelligence continue as at present. They expressed
- themselves as satisfied with the support that they were
now getting from OSI. They were encouraged to make
requests for additional assistance at any time.
Miscellaneous
We have been informed by Army that the- BROKLYN EAGLE -Aray -PIO has assured us
has picked up a story on the shipment of Russian that this story has been
ammunition from Spain to the US, presumahLy for Army "bottled up".
storage in the Raritan Arsenal. CIA has not been
brought into the situation and neither ttie BROOKLYN
EAGLE nor the New York PIO is aware of our interest.
The Gannett Newspapers have requested for Station WTHT Advised that if release is
of Hartford, Conn., a transcript ,of a OW broadcast by made it would be to next
Pfc. Frederick Brazee of Terryville, Conn. of kin, provided the Dept.
of the Army has no objec- .
TOP SECRET (CONT'D) - ti*# DEC 5 1951

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