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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.
“Headquarters”31 pages
- p. 11 …Forces in Germany."
OPC
Headquarters has received from the field for chemical
analysis, a sample of…
- p. 21 …forces have cut it off
from underground headquarters and requested, in view of
the extremely difficult…
- p. 28 …another agent recently arrived from the same headquarters.
Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved…
- p. 38 …Suggest you come as soon as feasible."
Headquarters has no further information oilthe matter to date…
- p. 40 …Chennault's secretary,
Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier,
passed a message to…
- p. 41 …OSO
The Chief Operations Officer of CIC/Trieste conferred with an
unidentified official at Headquarters of…
- p. 43 …Headquarters has no information on "candle", the subject of the
message the secretary passed"inadvertently to…
- p. 50 …reports that
the message misdelivered to BGMARQUE Headquarters
in Taipei by General Chennault's secretary was…
- p. 51 …conducted jointly with the State Security organization
headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security
has…
- p. 67 …At
headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution
channels.
COPY # of 5.
TOP…
- p. 86 …RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
Headquarters has authorized dGR Uto drop -2 guerrilla
contact teams…
- p. 98 …Tudeh leaders and the raiding of party' headquarters
where the police confiscated propaganda material, etc.
Our…
- p. 99 …This
proposal is being considered by Headquarters.
On 15 October, 2 guerrilla teams were dropped successfuy…
- p. 100 …Aerial photos
cdnfirmed the destruction of a North Koeah Army batallion
headquarters at the Mine and…
- p. 101 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the Government
Communications Headquarters, British' counterpart
of AFSA, will retire in…
- p. 104 …Plans and Training--
the executive and administrative headquarters, .(2)I Escape and
Evasion--new E & E…
- p. 105 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the British Goernment Communications
Headquarters, British counterpart of AFSAy will visit…
- p. 106 …and East Germany
have visited their West Berlin headquarters since 1949.
Forty-five thousand of these…
- p. 112 …Thomas that he be given assistance in:.establiahing the,
headquarters for the trust territories'in Saipan…
- p. 119 …in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters.
On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant…
- p. 122 …Washington in detail and
has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our
Hong Kong liaison…
- p. 131 …Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London,
will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951…
- p. 139 …OPC's facil ty at Camp Chinen,. Headquarters has
Okinawa, has requested authority to terminate the…
- p. 162 …A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been
headquarters in…
- p. 168 …Paris, in case
Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con-
tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors…
- p. 169 …If .this is and instructed to keep
not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed…
- p. 171 …The Spanish police officer in Barcelodna whd handles the Headquarters has decided
playback of a captured…
- p. 189 …Millard Lewis, A-2 USAFE, has informed Chief, OSO/ Headquarters has con-
Germany.' that a CIC…
- p. 194 …OPC
Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia-
tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London…
- p. 200 …in 1948 has been called to Party-
Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to
be restored…
- p. 209 …202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red
Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and…
TOP SECRET -
SECURIIN INFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,1h Dec. - 8:30 AM, 15 Dec.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OSO
State Dept. informed 050 that Vishinsky i c rculating a 0S0 informed State that an
petition in the UN which protests the:use of "electrical OSO-officer in Athens had
torture devices" by"U.S. security police" on Communists occasionally used a lie
recently arrested in Greece and requested iaformatibn to detector to assist Greek
guide its action in the matter. Security interrogation of
Communists, who submitted
voluntarily to the proce-
dure. Vishinsky's maneuver
seems clearly designed to
diffuse the impact of evi-
dence to be presented in
the impending trials of
Greek Communists arrested
during CIA's recent effec-
tive' carpaign against them.
State will drop the matter
on the basis of this ex-
planation.
OSO/New Delhi reported that Prime Ministe.Nehru has
welcomed with enthusiasm OSO's suggestion that Indian
Intelligence officers be trained in the U.S.. He insists,
however, that the officers selected for training remain
in India until the end of the Indian generaljelections
about' l February 1952.
John Bruce-Lockhart, British Secret.Serviceiia son: OSO does not feel that this
officer in Washington, told the Chief, 'FDW/dSO that expression of British interest
Spanish Intelligence had requested British support should modify the present
in radio-locating secret Soviet transmitters before;; bilateral arrangement made
asking for CIA assistance.- Since: the British are without knowledge of are
now ready to proceed, he suggested that CIA should British involvement.
either join in a tripartite operation or withdraw
from the project.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED)
DEC 141951
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