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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. 108 …Rimanian King Michael has issued a hurried summons for Visoianu, President of the Rumanian National Committee…
  • p. 109 …Because of this, it is suspected that the British and King Michael may have made some…
  • p. 127 …C.King as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have Share Co. offered…
  • p. 141 …the US Merchant Marine Acad'ery at Kings Point, New York. He was well received and…
  • p. 155 …to the Panama Station requesting J. C. King, who arrives there on 21 Nov. to malke…
  • p. 178 …in .an accurate fore- cast of a probable coup d'etat prior to the King's…
  • p. 184 …time, Hassan will submit the program to King Farouk for approval. Stressed immediately will .be assistance…
  • p. 192 …Roosevelt have The intelligence requested that intelligence material of interest material and equipment to'King Faroul…
  • p. 196 …The King has written a letter ~to the Prime Minister agreeing in principle to the constitutiorial…
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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