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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.
“Cooper”27 pages
- TOP SECRET DlRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM,13 Dec. - 8:30 AM, J4 Dec. 1TE OP DATE ACTION )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT OSO Chief, OS/Belgrade reports that Gen. Veleuit has informed Ambassador Allen that all arrangements for liais n between CIA and the UDB in Belgrade will be complete within a week. The Yugoslav officer selected to conduct this liaison will be the direct representative of Interior MinisteroRankovic but will sit in the Yugoslav Foreign Office for cover pur- poses and to avoid the precedent of allowing foreigners to go directly to the Interior inistry. This procedure fol- lows .that proposed by CIA during the original conversations with Gen. Velebit. Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the U.S. Legal Attache that the British, having already flown radio direction-finding equipment to Madrid, might proceed; without Spanish approval to locate a clandestine tranamitter in~the Valencia area which is one of the-targets of a joint CIA-Spanish Intelligence project. Reporting this to OSO/ Madrid, the Legal Attache added that the Spanish Chief of Counterintelligence has said, in view of.his agreement with CIA, that hewould take action against. the British if they should pursue the operation. A Norwegian Intelligence officer. has advised OSO/Oslo that Nils Langhelle, now Minister of Communications., will replace, Defense Minister Hauge,;who may become Minister of Justice. OSO fears that the .Chief of Norwegian Intelligence, owing to his cordial personal relations with both' Mnisters, may succeed in monopolizing liaison with ICIA by, dissolving OSO's promising liaison arrangement with'the Norwegian Police, approval of which was recently given with reluctance. OSO representatives briefed Ambassador Christian Ravndal, newly appointed US Minister to Hungary, on the status and. duties of the OSO officer in Budapest. Ambassador Ravndal TOPSECRET (CONTINUED) -13 DECEIBER 1951 COPY # LOF 7. SECURITY INFORMATION r
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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.