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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. 108 …Rimanian King Michael has issued a hurried summons for Visoianu, President of the Rumanian National Committee…
  • p. 109 …Because of this, it is suspected that the British and King Michael may have made some…
  • p. 127 …C.King as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have Share Co. offered…
  • p. 141 …the US Merchant Marine Acad'ery at Kings Point, New York. He was well received and…
  • p. 155 …to the Panama Station requesting J. C. King, who arrives there on 21 Nov. to malke…
  • p. 178 …in .an accurate fore- cast of a probable coup d'etat prior to the King's…
  • p. 184 …time, Hassan will submit the program to King Farouk for approval. Stressed immediately will .be assistance…
  • p. 192 …Roosevelt have The intelligence requested that intelligence material of interest material and equipment to'King Faroul…
  • p. 196 …The King has written a letter ~to the Prime Minister agreeing in principle to the constitutiorial…
- - 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.