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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. 206 …60 The East and West Coast Bureaus of FBIS have been alerted to file. to Washington…
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,12 Ded. - 8:30 AM, 13 Dec.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OSO
On 11 Dec., Mr. Roy Tod of G-2 raised with, fADSO,at Subject to the Director's
the instance of Gen. Bolling, G-2' desire .o be' approval, OSO will continue
briefed in detail on OSO's capabilities for px'odiicing to keep the IPC and the IAC
information on the high priority Soviet-and satellite informed of its capabili-
targets submitted by the Inter-Agency Priorities ties and actions on re-
Committee. DADSO informed Tod that OSO would not - quirements for clandestine
reveal its operational methods'or the .locatioris of4 collection, but will not
its .agents without specific authority from the Director reveal details of agent
and reminded him that OSO had recently briefed the operations, since there is
Inter-Agency Priorities Committee and the IAC on its no indication of the use to
activities to the extent that it was felt proper to' - Which the services would
do so. DADSO then suggested that the Arny would un- . put this sensitive informa-
doubtedly receive some additional indications on the tion or how widely it would
general aspects of OSO's capabilities in the course of be spread through the
discussions which will b-e held if the Director approves .. Pentagon, to the possible
a series of meetings with the service representatives on detriment of CIA security.
"agreed activities" under NSCE #5. It should also be
noted that Mr. George Garrett of the Air Force raised
in a less direct manner this same question of capabilities
during the IPC meeting on 7December.
DADSO and other OSO officers briefed FBI representatives
Belmont, Bates, and Keay on CIA and OSO organization and
-reached agreement on .procedures and .practices which should
result in mutual advantage. The problem of 'servicing one
another's requests was analyzed and is being formalized
jointly. Discussion was specific and detailed but cordial
and cooperative.
Working-level liaison has been establ shedbetieen OSO and
the FBI on a counter-intelligence research project directed
against the Czechoslovakian Intelligence :Service.
(CONTINUED)
TOP SECRET 12 DECEMBER 1951 -- l .... . of

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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.