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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
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG t'
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 6 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 7 Dec. ^
)CUMENT RECEIVED PROM TO SUBJECT ' ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
An agreement has been reached with Radio- Free Europe which
will resolve past security problems by eliminating un-
controlled or competitive activities and make operational,
assistance to OSO possible in appropriate cases.
OSO/Germany has taken custody from French Intelligence of
2 officials of the Polish Legation in Cairo who defected
in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the
defectors are of no intelligence value, no commitments
were made to them and OSO assistance willbe limited to
placing them in IRO channels for resettle ent..
Fearing disciplinary action for his inability to Although Swedish Intelligence
assist anotiher Polish vessel disabled in a recent reports that he is of slight
storm at sea, the master of a Polish merchant ship intelligence value, OSO/
has :requested asylum in Sweden. Stockholm will attempt to
exploit, him through inde-
pendent O0 sources.
OPC
Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia-
tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London next, week and
offer him a limited budget for his General:Staff for
specific activities specified by CIA. In'return' for
this, Gen. Anders will be asked to work toward unifica-
tion of the Polish emigre organizations. Up to thi's-
time, Gen. Anders has opposed unification.
The circulation of a CIA-subsidized Vienna paperi
DIE PRESSE, has increased over one-third in a single
month, at a time when the circulation of other Vienna
papers dropped as a result of price increases. This
circulation boost is attributable, in part, to the. fact
that an insert carrying George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
was included with 1 edition of the paper. 4 5,000
promotional lea fet E f been distributedlin the
(CONTINUN) y i Of 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.