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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
SECURITY INFORMATION
- DIRECTOR'S LOG -
VTE OF DATE 8:30 AM,17 Dec. - 8:30 AM,18 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
in involving the religious forces under the fanatical Moslem
cleric Kashani in anti-Tudeh action.. Despite excesses during
the riots directed against anti-Tudeh elements as well as
against the Tudeh, our agents consider that the total result
of the riots was favorable, since they have forced the govern-
ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely
against the Tudeh or to retreat before it. CIA agents are.
operating a large-scale press service, furnishing anti- i
Tudeh caricatures, cliches, articles, tz'ansgations, and news,
and claim to have penetrated almost eyery Teh ran newspaper.
through this means.
MISC. -
In view of the expected visit of Mr. Churehill, Gn. Sanford AD/NE and AD/C
has requested that there be repared on :a 'riorit".crash
basis a special estimate
17 DECEMBER 1951 COPY # OF 7.
TOP SECRET

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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.