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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.
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TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM, 11 Sept. 8:30 AM 12 Sept. (TE OF DATE )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC (Con!t) made with the UHVR-UPA (Ukrainian Resistance Movement), although no messages were exchanged. This is the first contact with the Ukrainian partisan operator since 7 August. A six-man CIA-controlled Albanian agent team crossed the border into Greece on 3 September. During its three-week stay inside the country, the team was involved in a battle with Albanian security forces in the region between Gramah and Voshkopoje and killed two of the enemy without loss to itself. Matiani, the team leader, brought out valuable Albanian Communist documentation which was removed from the bodies.. The team disobeyed instructions by operating in an area allotted to the British by previous agreement and bs becoming involved with the enemy before becoming properly established. In addition, for reasons as yet unknown to Washington, it failed to display peoper recognition fires for an attempted resupply drop. The operations staff of the British VAIUABLE mission is reportedly concerned. The resulting alert of Albanian security forces may have disrupted the effective .operation of a British-controlled team in the same area. :The OPC Albanian field chief has recommended disbanding the CIA- controlled team but has requested that its two top men be retained for future hit-and-run operations. He is being instructed to retain their services for special missions and to use his initiative in planning such missions. It was reported on 8 September that the September schedule for infiltrations into Albania had been postponed one month due to the lack of trained W/T operators. A subsequent . TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. SEP 1 1 95
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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.