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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. 19 …A six-man CIA-controlled Albanian agent team crossed the border into Greece on 3 September…
  • p. 28 …Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved prospects of controlling Bulgarian intelligence activities in Northern…
  • p. 30 …d) On a scouting mission to Shi Cheng Tao, the CIA-controlled Korean fishing vessel SEA…
  • p. 73 …Two OSO agents have returned to Salzburg from a mission into Hungary during which they buried…
  • p. 76 …time mission to Sofia, where he will recruit a resident agent. OPC A CIA-controlled guerrilla…
  • p. 139 …Joint' American Nilitary Mission to Aid Turkey(JAAT) as cover for CIA-controlled Paramilitary operations in…
  • p. 174 …known in official US quarters, conferred "in strictest confidence" with the BGMARQUE Chief of Mission on…
  • p. 234 …This is aonersnot mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred the…
- TOP SECRET N
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,1
2 Sept. 8:30 AM,13 Sept.
TE OF DATE -
1CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
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The sealed Trotsky papers held by the Harvard Corporation
have been opened by arrangement between the Corporation and the
Boston Office of Contact Division. A preliminary examination -
indicates that there are some 30,000 documents exclusive of
printed matter. A sampling of about 1,500 documents gives
information about people not previously known to be close to
Trotsky. The entire lot is considered by Harvard authorities
to be of great value. Dr. Clyde Kluckhohn has asked for a
research assistant to aid him in the examination of the
documents. Contact Division is asking both OSO and OPC
to suggest qualified candidates.
OSO
The team of Ukrainian Partisan agents dispatched last May to
establish communication with the Ukrainian underground
movement reported by Radio that MVD forces have cut it off
from underground headquarters and requested, in view of
the extremely difficult position of the resistance elements,
that no further airdrops be made this year.
Mr. William Dunham, head of the State Department Spanish
desk, yesterday informed OSO that Ambassador to Spain
Stanton Griffis will be available in Washington on 13 or
1n September. Mr. Dunham implied that the DCI might
wish to take the opportunity to talk with Mr. Griffis.
OPC
Further debriefing of the six-man OPC-controlled Albanian
agent team which crossed the border into Greece on 3 Sept.
has revealed that the Communist leader of the Albanian
(CONTINUED) COPY # .L OF 5. SEP 12 1951TOP SECRET

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