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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.
“Headquarters”31 pages
- p. 11 …Forces in Germany."
OPC
Headquarters has received from the field for chemical
analysis, a sample of…
- p. 21 …forces have cut it off
from underground headquarters and requested, in view of
the extremely difficult…
- p. 28 …another agent recently arrived from the same headquarters.
Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved…
- p. 38 …Suggest you come as soon as feasible."
Headquarters has no further information oilthe matter to date…
- p. 40 …Chennault's secretary,
Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier,
passed a message to…
- p. 41 …OSO
The Chief Operations Officer of CIC/Trieste conferred with an
unidentified official at Headquarters of…
- p. 43 …Headquarters has no information on "candle", the subject of the
message the secretary passed"inadvertently to…
- p. 50 …reports that
the message misdelivered to BGMARQUE Headquarters
in Taipei by General Chennault's secretary was…
- p. 51 …conducted jointly with the State Security organization
headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security
has…
- p. 67 …At
headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution
channels.
COPY # of 5.
TOP…
- p. 86 …RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
Headquarters has authorized dGR Uto drop -2 guerrilla
contact teams…
- p. 98 …Tudeh leaders and the raiding of party' headquarters
where the police confiscated propaganda material, etc.
Our…
- p. 99 …This
proposal is being considered by Headquarters.
On 15 October, 2 guerrilla teams were dropped successfuy…
- p. 100 …Aerial photos
cdnfirmed the destruction of a North Koeah Army batallion
headquarters at the Mine and…
- p. 101 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the Government
Communications Headquarters, British' counterpart
of AFSA, will retire in…
- p. 104 …Plans and Training--
the executive and administrative headquarters, .(2)I Escape and
Evasion--new E & E…
- p. 105 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the British Goernment Communications
Headquarters, British counterpart of AFSAy will visit…
- p. 106 …and East Germany
have visited their West Berlin headquarters since 1949.
Forty-five thousand of these…
- p. 112 …Thomas that he be given assistance in:.establiahing the,
headquarters for the trust territories'in Saipan…
- p. 119 …in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters.
On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant…
- p. 122 …Washington in detail and
has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our
Hong Kong liaison…
- p. 131 …Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London,
will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951…
- p. 139 …OPC's facil ty at Camp Chinen,. Headquarters has
Okinawa, has requested authority to terminate the…
- p. 162 …A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been
headquarters in…
- p. 168 …Paris, in case
Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con-
tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors…
- p. 169 …If .this is and instructed to keep
not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed…
- p. 171 …The Spanish police officer in Barcelodna whd handles the Headquarters has decided
playback of a captured…
- p. 189 …Millard Lewis, A-2 USAFE, has informed Chief, OSO/ Headquarters has con-
Germany.' that a CIC…
- p. 194 …OPC
Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia-
tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London…
- p. 200 …in 1948 has been called to Party-
Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to
be restored…
- p. 209 …202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red
Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and…
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.
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