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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
SECURITYWHFORMETD~DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 5 Dec. - 8:30 AM,6 Dec.
TE OF DATE C~A'iN
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACT
Miscellaneous
24 Nov 5 Gen. Truscott DCI Gen. Truscott has requested that 4 liaison aircraft DD/A for preparation
(L-17s) with pilots be assigned to him to be used in of reply for DCI sig-
staff visits between the separate bases such as nature coordinating
Frankfurt, Munich, Heidelberg, Bonn ad the various with DD/P
training areas as well as for special use in agent
training. He notes that Air Force has agreed to
house and maintain these aircraft on a reimbursable
basis.
3 Dec 51 Philip G. Reed,
Managing Editor,INS DCI Mr. Reed refers to a previous discussidn with DCI DD/A for preparation
concerning the advisability of installing INS of direct reply.
wire in CIA, and asks whether the service is now
desired. -,
OPC
In view of the rapid progress made in cease-fire
negotiations leading to the likelihood of an armistice
within 30 days, CIA senior representative Aurell in
Tokyo expressed to the Far East Command on 27 Nov.
the opinion that such an armistice would be interpreted
as a cessation of hostilities, stating that if this
was to be the case it was his understanding that CIA
operations in Korea would return to- the command direction.
of the DCI. Mr. Aurell requested the views -of the Far
East Command on this transition of the command relation-'
ship. On 5 Dec. Gen. Ennis, Far East Co&itand G-2, replied
that 'it was the feeling in G-2 that armistice or no
armistice, there would be no immediate peace in the Far
East, that Far East Command control -and- coordination of -
.clandestine intelligence and covert -operations was essential
to intelligent planning and efficient operation and that
present command channels should remain unchanged at least untii -
such time- as peace is insured in Korea. ; DEC 5 1951
- TOP SECRET ,(CONT'D) ..

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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.