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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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.
js
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.