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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. 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 SEC~RET
SECURITYI9FORMATION Rat 0 SW
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,6 Dec. - 8:30 AM,7 Dec.
,TE OF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO. SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
A British Secret Service officer in London stated that
Conservative sensitivity to Labor campaign charges of
"warmongering" is a political factor which has led to
the foreign policy objectives recently defined by
Foreign Secretary Eden as (a) reduction of the tempera-
ture of international debate and (b) solution of limited,
specific problems to build .a mosaic of lasting peace.
This officer indicated his personal concern lest this
policy curtail or preclude the more aggressive Secret
Service operations, air dispatch of agents ii.particular,
as involving too great a risk of adverse,;jblicity at
home in the event of a documented Soviet or Satellite.
charge of internal interference.
Recognizing CIA's greater capabilities, responsible Greek
officials have fully agreed to CIA exploitation of all foreign
leads yielded by current operations against the Greek.
Communist Party. This makes possible coordinated and
effective exploitation of the international ramifications
of the case.
FBI liaison representatives in France reported to OSO/Paris
that they now receive copies of all FBI requests to CIA
for information from official French sources and, because :
of French delay in acting. on CIA requests, ai-e sometimes
able to get faster replies through their own liaison channels.
They agree that this procedure is unso'jnd,; however, and will
discuss such cases with OSO/Paris befors taking independent
action.
An agent of OSO/Berlin has returned from a mission in The ease with which the
Poland during which he recruited 8 sub-agents, including agent performed his mis-
a cross-border guide, a radio operator, and an employee sion engenders some
of.the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and established a . skepticism, requiring re-
safehouse and several letterdrops. assessment of his bona
TOP SECRET . (CONT-.UED) .:a > fideg DEC 6 1951

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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.