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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
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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