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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…
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. OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first
by an agent of Italian Intelligence, of a Hungarian atomic priority to clari-
scientist who allegedly worked for several years in atomic fication of the cir-
energy installations in the USSR and Hungary before es- cumstances and
caping to Switzerland. Although the Italian Intelligence assessment of the
agent, himself a Hungarian refugee, insists that the source.
scientist will not agree to contact with US officials,
he has, with the knowledge of his superiors, informed
the. OS Arne and Naval Attaches in Rome of,. the case.
Exploitation of the OSO/Athens operation against the
Greek Communist Party is continuing with increase in
Greek surveillance personnel to 150 menrto provide for
adequate surveillance of suspects. Greek authorities plan..
court martial proceedings against h Iseph te.groups ;in the'
Communist underground, a left-wing newspaper will be
closed, and individual Communists who have penetrated a
left-wing political group will be prosecuted.
Swiss police cannot confirm a French press report of
30 Nov. that 2 of Vishinsky's aides in, the UN secretariat
had defected and fled to Switzerland. "French authorities
declare flatly that the story is entirely false.'
An OSO agent in Paris who was expelled from the French
Communist Party in 1948 has been called to Party-
Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to
be restored to membership.
OPC
The East German Peoples' Police is acceIrating its
drive against OPC propaganda efforts, to'discredit the
Grotewohl "unity" proposal for all Germany. -Repently,
they have carried out house-to-house seaches for an
TOP SECRET -;
(CONTINUED) 10 DECEMBER 191 CopyP

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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.