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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. 2 …Chief of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should await the arrival of the official CIA…
  • p. 72 …stay- behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may…
  • p. 92 …Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret…
  • p. 107 …Tnis infonaation was brought to the attention of our representative in Madrid. ho requested that the…
  • p. 119 …On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache, Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly…
  • p. 131 …He will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951. Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in…
  • p. 168 …US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air…
  • p. 171 …official liaison with the Spanish Services in Madrid. A large US electronic instrument firm, which has…
  • p. 208 …Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the U.S. Legal Attache that the British…
  • p. 217 …OSO/Madrid, however, reports that the Chief of Spanish Intelligence wants the project to' continue on…
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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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.