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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. 2 …Chief of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should await the arrival of the official CIA…
  • p. 72 …stay- behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may…
  • p. 92 …Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret…
  • p. 107 …Tnis infonaation was brought to the attention of our representative in Madrid. ho requested that the…
  • p. 119 …On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache, Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly…
  • p. 131 …He will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951. Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in…
  • p. 168 …US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air…
  • p. 171 …official liaison with the Spanish Services in Madrid. A large US electronic instrument firm, which has…
  • p. 208 …Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the U.S. Legal Attache that the British…
  • p. 217 …OSO/Madrid, however, reports that the Chief of Spanish Intelligence wants the project to' continue on…
- TOP SECRET
SECURITYIHFCRMATI 00
DIRECTOR'S LOG
1TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 5 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 6 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ATO
OPc Cont d.
OPC Chief of Station Lansdale in Manilarlas repdrted an State Dept. has
"Unholy Alliance" aiming toward the ousting of Magsaysay been alerted and
as Sec'y of.Defense, the possible impeachment of President Ambassador Cowan is
Quirino, and reestablishment of the Philippine Constabulary leaving on 7 Dec. for
as means. of "guaranteeing" victory in the 1953 presidential Manila. Forces
election for the Lopeze-Recto ticket. The immediate task against the "Alliance"
is. to prevent impeachment of Pres. Quirino. in the Philippines are
being mobilized.
"Leaks" will appear in
the Manila press in
the immediate future
exposing the plans of
the "Alliance".
A large'amount of propaganda material't,4 been produced
to' counter the Grotewohl "unity":proposals in Germany.
A full page advertisement.was lnserted'in the leading
West German weekly "Quick", reading: "in the Soviet
Zone 137,000 Women Engaged in Heavy Labor, 27,000
Women. in the Mines - Grotewohl calls it equality of
rights." Some 125,000 leaflets have been! distributed
in Western Germany picturing Stalin about to swallow
all of Germany and another 250,000 leaflets idistributed
.in the Soviet tone report on a purporte underground
conference of the German Freedom'Leaguej'a CIA-invented
anti-Comnunist group.
The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian
Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166 persons,
including 17 hress representatives. The Albanian News
Bulletin, published that day for. the first time, was highly
praised by the newsmen present. Special Radio Free Europe
programs commemorating the day were cogpletely jammed, but
TOP SECRET - DEC 5
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.