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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
TOP SECRET
SECURITY INDRmNA TION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30-AM, 13 Dec.- 8:30 AM, l4 Dec.
kTE OF DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
remarked that he had already formed a.high opinion of 'the
OSO representative on the basis of his reports to the State'.
Dept. made as Acting Political Officer of the Legation in
Budapest.
202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red
Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and 12 Dec. An additional
134 volunteers could not be processed. -
A second issue of a small 1;-page clandestine newspaper
addressed to German youth has been prepared and litho-
printed by an OPC-directed German editorial team,.,
Some 10,000 copies of this, paper are beirdisributed .
in the Soviet Zone of Germany. --
00
- A two-hour interview between Repiesentative Frank.L.
Chelf (D., Ky.) and Maximilian Jiri Lom, who defected
in August from his post in the Czech Ministry of Foreign
Trade, was arranged by the Defector Reception Center
(Germany) on 29 Nov. 1951. Representative Chelf, member
of a House Judiciary Committee group whih had visited
DRC(G) 9 days earlier, asked permission .to discuss with
Lom the Oatis case and the probable effects of severing
U.S. diplomatic relations with Czechoslovaka. During the
confidential interview, the Congressman told Lomthat he
planned to introduce a resolution callirigifor th severance
of US-Czech diplomatic relations if Oatisi not released
promptly. . -,-
(CONTINUED)
TOP SECRET 13 DECEMBER 199. COPY # OF 7.

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