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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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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.