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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
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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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.