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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 2 11 C
SECUR1TINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,18 Dec. - 8:30 AM,19 Dec.
~TEOF DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO . SUBJECT [.. .. ACTION
We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to
attend the World Moslem Conference scheduled for 5
January. He will stop in Teheran en .route, to see
the, influential Moslem cleric Mullah Kashani. At the:
World Moslem Conference, where we may have several
CIA agents present, we hope to achieve the following
. objectives:
(a) To influence the Conference to adopt an anti-
Communist stand.
(b) To counter the ultra-nationalist tendencies of
- Mullah Kashani and the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
(c).To gain operational-intelligence.
(d) To obtain a definite check on the reliability
and usefulneps. of this agent as our princL one, in
our p'an-Isladic program.
Cho Do and Soc Do, on the west coast of Korea above All CIA personnel are being
the 380 parallel, are threatened by an imminent evacuated to Paengnyong-do
amphibious invasion. Night amphibious attack 'is costly Island below the 38th
and since the Islands have been offered forjbarter to parallel to carry on E&E
the Communists by Adm. Joy, the U.S. Navy is of the and guerrilla operations.
opinion that the Islands' defense by "4 destroyers and
one carrier is not worthwhile..
OSO +
According to OSO/London, the British Secret. Service
considers its current request to join CIA and Spanioh -
Intelligence in radio-locating a secret.Soviet transmitter
in Spain to be a reasonable one, since only Foreign Office
disapproval had prevented previous initiation of- the opera-
tion. OSO/Madrid, however, reports that the Chief of
Spanish Intelligence wants the project to' continue on its
present basis as a US-Spanish operation.-
TOP SECRET (CONTTNUD) 18 DECBER 1951 COPY # OF 7.

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