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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.

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TOP SECRET -
SECURITYINFORMATIiN
DIRECTOR'S LOG
RTEOF DATE 8:30 AM,l1Dec. - 8:30 AM, 12 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO/Rome, through its high-level penetration into the
-- Italian Foreign Office, has obtained a copy of a basic
study on the Trieste problem prepared by an Italian
expert for the use of the Italian Foreign Office in
discussing.any settlement of the Trieste question.
It is believed that this study will be of considerable
value to the State Department.
The information obtained by Italian Intelligence While the inaccuracies and
from the "alleged escaped Hungarian atomq.c soientist" inconsistencies of his
now in Switzerland, has been established by technical story to date appear to
evaluations to be a fabrication by an individual with preclude the possibility
some knowledge of nuclear physics .but without an , of any planned deception,
actual knowledge of the installations,methods and OSO/Romewill attemt to
personnel he has described. arrange for a complete
-. interrogation of the sub-
ject to establish his
motivation.'.
The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has -
been discussing matters of mutual interest with the
Chief of the Italian Armed Forces Intelligence
Service (SIFAR).
OPC
BGMARQUE is receiving excellent reports on news and
leaflet drops on mainland. Since people are actually
paying for the news bulletins, we are planning to
have Civil Air Transport fly a full load over the
coastal provinces of Chekiang and Fukiln the week of
17 Dec. If successful, we will schedule one fall load
of approximately 10,000 lbs. thereafter.'ilUp until this
date, all leaflets have been dropped in the area surrounding
Chin-Min Island for a radious of 60 miles'
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) -
DEC 1 0 1951 DIz

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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.