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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 .
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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