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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
TOP SEClET
- ~ SECURITY INFORMATION W
/ DIRECTOR'S LOG -
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,8 Dec. - 8:30 AM,9 Dec.
ICUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
Training
A representative of the Office of. Traihinjlmet with
Professor Bellinger of Yale University to make final
arrangements with him for accepting the position of
establishing college contacts in .50 or more ;American
colleges and universities primarily for the'purpose
of recruiting high-level basic traineesi
Initial steps have been taken to plan for the second
CIA participation in a summer seminar .n ,the Near East
Four field grade officers from the Dept. of State -2
USAF and 1 each from Army and Navy - have requested
permission to attend the next !D-day CIA Orientation
Course. I&SO has concurred in admitting these officers
to the course provided they can be security cleared.
Project ZRCORSET - On.5 Dec. representatives of.JSPD
and USAF met with Lt. Col. Wilde (OPC) and 'a representa-
tive of the Office of Training. The conference was called
to clarify and explain the formal requisatfor c:over.
Informal conclusion reached was: -
The USAF conferees stated that in their personal. opinion
the military services would; support ZRCORSET as to its
cover and as to its logistic support proaided that:
1. Official written assurance from CIA be given JSPD
that a firm agreement had been reached with the
British Government permitting the proposed
activities at ZRCORSET.
2. The requested logistical support be both factual
and "reasonable".
The Office of Training was informed by OpsO/OPC on 5 Dec.
that a representative of OPC had been directed to open
the entire matter of negotiations with the British Govern- DEC 1
ment; that he is now in London; and that an .iminent report of
progress is TOP SECRET -
-expected. (CONTINUED. C0p I7

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