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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
SECURITY INFORMATION
t DIRECTOR'S LOG
TEOF DATE 8:30 AM, 13 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 1l Dec.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT 4" ACTION
"OSI ,A G
On 11 December, at the request of OSI, a meeting wa held
with Gen. Davison, Mr. Fuchs, and other fiscal and personnel
representatives to discuss the emergency action required to
effect the transfer oc concerned CIA personnel in Cermany
from State Dept. to CTA rolls, prior to 1 January. iThis
problem is a facet of implementing the Truscott-McCloy
Agreement of 23 October 1951.
ORR .
Dr. Hillikan received a letter C, which has been
expressing handling the details
appreciation for the information supplied.hi about the of the proposed CIA
"Current Digest of the Soviet Press' and informing us that financing of the Digest
the Board of Trustees 'at$50,000 has been informed and
for the support of the "Current Digest." - has withdrawn our funds
Miscellaneous
The U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New fork, has Legal Counsel through
requested information on the China Daily News, which DD/A.
has published advertisements concerning the remittance
of funds from the U.S. to China.
Admiral Souers has forwarded a chemical formula that AD/SI
was developed by Dr. Kormel Szabo who was chief
chemist of Nitrochenia Inc., owned by the Hungarian
State.. This fcrmula was submitted to Adm.Souers by
Ladislos. Fargo of New York City, presently an, employee
of Radio Free Europe.. -
13 DECEI BER 1951 COPY # OF 7.
TOP SECRET -
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