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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. 74 …8:30 AM, )0CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO The Pentagon has warned EUCOM that…
  • p. 205 …Pentagon, to the possible a series of meetings with the service representatives on detriment of CIA…
*TOP SECRET
.SECURITY INFOfaWATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 18 Dec. - 8:30 AM,19 Dec.
2CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO -'SUBJECT _- ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
The State Dept. has reopened the question of a reply to If State decides that a
Vishinsky's charge that US officials in Athens have used reply must be made, the
an'"electrical torture device" in interrogating Greek statemirtwill be sub-
Communists. State suggested that :we admit the use of mitted in draft for CIA
the polygraph by Mr. Robert Driscoll, "an E&ibassy Attache", comment.
and offer a demonstration to the UN committee. OSO does
not object to this on security grounds'but--is of the opinion-
that any admission will merely furnish opportunity for
further Soviet charges.
According to the German Chief of ZIPPER, Hans Olobke,
Chancellor Adenauer's Assistant for Personnel,. is now
convinced that the German counterpart of OPC should be
placed under German Intelligence, not under' the. fufuxre
Defense Ministry. The ZIPPER Chief himself firmlyf believes
that activities of this type should be limited to subversion
by clandestipe propaganda and that CIA should not discuss
planning for resistance activities with the German Government.
Although State Dept. must reply formally to ,the Rumanian
note charging US sponsorship of the 2 (OSO-putch Intelligence)
agents recently captured in Rumania, State-Has not yet decided.
whether to ask CIA for any information it;'may have on the
matter. -
Gen. Umberto Broccoli, Chief of Italian Intelligence, has
accepted CIA's invitation to come to the US on 14 January:
for a two-week visit. x
18 DECEBER 1951 'COPY # OF 7.
TOP SECRET

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