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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
- - TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,17 Dec. - 830 AM,18 Dec.
CUMENT . RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OPC
An attempt to re-supply an OPE operational team
in Northern Albania failed on 13 December whene
recognition signals. were seen. Radio contaot was
last established with this team on l4 November.
An: OPC-subsidized group in East Germany,.the Free
Jurists Committee, has asked the United Nations to
investigate a long list of criminal acts b, the East
Zone state security police. The committee has offered
to produce 9,000 documented cases and h2,00 sworn
statements to back its. charges against the Sotiet Zone
police of "murder, illegal detention, bodily injury,
extortion of confessions,. persecution of iqnocent persons -
and forced denunciations and spying." A sfaory'covering
the documented cases and sworn statements 'was carried
in the New York TIES of 13 December 1951.
During the large-scale riots in Iran on 6 December; our
chief agents played a role both in; involving the Prime
Minister and his government in an anti-Tudeh program, and
TOp SECRET (CONTINUED) 17 DECEMBER 1951 COPY # L OF 7.

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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.