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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. 51 …with the State Security organization headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security has been a…
  • p. 84 …Ambassador to Belgium Murphy views favorably an OSO/Brussels suggestion that CIA assign an officer to…
  • p. 97 …OSO OSO/Brussels has forwarded microfilm copi s of Belgian . State Security agent dossiers and informant…
  • p. 105 …operation brought to the attention of OSO/Brussels in its late stages. Sir Edward Travis, Director…
  • p. 111 …fact that the Czech ;ilitary Attache; in Brussels was long penetrated by'a Dutch-Belgian double…
  • p. 131 …through the" British Secret Service representative in Brussels that there was no. tripartite British-Dutch-U…
  • p. 147 …a who learned during a trip .to Brussels that 'tripartite program of this kind in cooperation…
TOP SECRET
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,14 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 15 Dec.
CUMENT RECEIVED. FROM TO .SUBJECT -ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
The Senior CIA Representative in France, seelcing to OSO is urging that he instead
provide against political repercussions which might attempt to place the network
result from French discovery of OSO's staj-behind under protection of the French
network in France, is considering disclosing its Ministry of the Interior.
existence to SHAPE. -
OPC
The Board of Directors of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Headed by Mr. Henry Cabot,- has agreed -
to -the orchestra's participation in the Spring
Festival in Europe under the auspices of the Congress
for Cultural Freedom. The plan provides .fc 2 or 3
concerts in Paris and a subsequent tour of Western
Europe. The agreement represents a sacrifice of'ahout
$20,000 which ordinarily accrues to the .orchestra -
each Spring in the course of its "Pop" concerts.
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TOP SECRET D 1- -
DEC 14 1951 CopyjL~.

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