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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.

TOP SECRET [NT" i c ,
DIRECTOR'S LOG
E OF DATE 8:30 AM, h Sept.- 8:30 AM,5 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
The Chief of Spanish counterespionage has expressed a
desire for more regular meetings with the Chief of
Station, Madrid, and the Legal Attache, showing marked
interest in exchange of information on Tangier. Chief
of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should
await the arrival of the official CIA liaison officer
in November.
The Senior Representative, Paris, urges that CIA invite
the Chief of the French Surete Nationale to visit Washington
this fall.
Mr. Charles F. Baldwin, Economic Counsellor of the US
Embassy in London, arrives in Washington on 15 September
for reassignment to Singapore, where he believes he will
be appointed Minister. He would like to receive briefing
on CIA activities in the Far East. OSO, London, reports
that Mr. Baldwin has been a good friend to CIA in London
and in view of his possible future usefulness, recommends
that he be given considerable attention in Washington.
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Over the holiday weekend, FBID began filing Significant
Foreign Radio Comments on Japanese Peace Treaty to the
American delegation at the San Francisco Conference. Army
Communications Service agreed to handle this traffic from
Washington to the Presidio and then on to the American
delegation by messenger. The material is filed to the
attention of Mr. W. Bradley Connors. Beginning 5 Sept.
a round-up will be prepared and sent in time to be in the
hands of the American delegation at the beginning of each
day's conference.
(CONTINUED) COPY # OF 5.
TOP SECRET SEP ! 1951

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