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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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  • p. 11 …Forces in Germany." OPC Headquarters has received from the field for chemical analysis, a sample of…
  • p. 21 …forces have cut it off from underground headquarters and requested, in view of the extremely difficult…
  • p. 28 …another agent recently arrived from the same headquarters. Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved…
  • p. 38 …Suggest you come as soon as feasible." Headquarters has no further information oilthe matter to date…
  • p. 40 …Chennault's secretary, Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier, passed a message to…
  • p. 41 …OSO The Chief Operations Officer of CIC/Trieste conferred with an unidentified official at Headquarters of…
  • p. 43 …Headquarters has no information on "candle", the subject of the message the secretary passed"inadvertently to…
  • p. 50 …reports that the message misdelivered to BGMARQUE Headquarters in Taipei by General Chennault's secretary was…
  • p. 51 …conducted jointly with the State Security organization headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security has…
  • p. 67 …At headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution channels. COPY # of 5. TOP…
  • p. 86 …RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC Headquarters has authorized dGR Uto drop -2 guerrilla contact teams…
  • p. 98 …Tudeh leaders and the raiding of party' headquarters where the police confiscated propaganda material, etc. Our…
  • p. 99 …This proposal is being considered by Headquarters. On 15 October, 2 guerrilla teams were dropped successfuy…
  • p. 100 …Aerial photos cdnfirmed the destruction of a North Koeah Army batallion headquarters at the Mine and…
  • p. 101 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the Government Communications Headquarters, British' counterpart of AFSA, will retire in…
  • p. 104 …Plans and Training-- the executive and administrative headquarters, .(2)I Escape and Evasion--new E & E…
  • p. 105 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the British Goernment Communications Headquarters, British counterpart of AFSAy will visit…
  • p. 106 …and East Germany have visited their West Berlin headquarters since 1949. Forty-five thousand of these…
  • p. 112 …Thomas that he be given assistance in:.establiahing the, headquarters for the trust territories'in Saipan…
  • p. 119 …in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters. On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant…
  • p. 122 …Washington in detail and has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our Hong Kong liaison…
  • p. 131 …Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London, will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951…
  • p. 139 …OPC's facil ty at Camp Chinen,. Headquarters has Okinawa, has requested authority to terminate the…
  • p. 162 …A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been headquarters in…
  • p. 168 …Paris, in case Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con- tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors…
  • p. 169 …If .this is and instructed to keep not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed…
  • p. 171 …The Spanish police officer in Barcelodna whd handles the Headquarters has decided playback of a captured…
  • p. 189 …Millard Lewis, A-2 USAFE, has informed Chief, OSO/ Headquarters has con- Germany.' that a CIC…
  • p. 194 …OPC Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia- tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London…
  • p. 200 …in 1948 has been called to Party- Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to be restored…
  • p. 209 …202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and…
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.