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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 .SECkiT -CIIRJ!Y I~FRMAnto DC
- -DIRECTOR'-S LOG
8:30 AM, 17 Dec.- 8:30 AM, 18 Dec.
TE OF DATE -TO
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT N ACTION
OSO
Chief, OSO/Belgrade met for the first time ith the Yugoslav
Intelligence officer designated to conduct dliaison with him
and presented a broad and comprehensive outline of CIA's
views on the relationship. The Yugoslav reply, expected this
week, should define the initial scope of the liaison, after.''
which the Chief of Station will return to Washington for
discussion of its further development. The Yugoslav
representative confirmed that 050's Chief of Station is
personally acceptable and that his past intelligence activities
in Yugoslavia will not prejudice the association.
A Finnish agent, who has performed 2 missions in Soviet OSO is arranging, with
Karelia for the Army Attache/Helsinki acting for OSO, Army approval and as-
escaped illegally last month to Sweden to avoid arrest sistance, to evacuate
by the Finnish Border Guard on Soviet requa't. Following ''the agent to Germany,
hisarrestby Swedish authorities,' he gave Swedish in order to protect
Intelligence' full account or his activities, including both the Army Attache/
the identity of the agent who accompanied him on both Helsinki and the agent
missi,dns but is still in Finland, though unidentified in Finland.
by either Finnish or Soviet authorities. To forestall
an anticipated Finnish request-for extradition; Swedish
Intelligence has now offered to release the agent to
OSO/Stockholm for immediate removal frm Sweden.
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TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) 17 DECEMBER 1951 COPY # L OF 7.
SECURITY INFORNATION 3

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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.