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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 Yv CI
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,19 Dec. - 8:30 AM,
2 0 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
The 2 agents reported by Radio Moscow to have, been :apprehended
and executed in the Soviet Union are undoubtedly identical
with 2 OSO agents dispatched by air into the southwestern
Ukraine on 14 August. The facts so far reported by the
Soviet radio are accurate.
- After discussion wi.th DD/P, the British Segret Service
representative in Washington has agreed to "regomiend
that the British withdraw their request. for participation
in the CIA-Spanish Intelligence project to locate .and
control a secret Soviet Intelligence transiatter. operating
- in Spain. He will recommend further that information
produced by a related Soviet double-agentdcase in Spain
be passed to CIA in return for the product of the US-
Spanish project.
The Chief of Italian Intelligence reported to OBO/nome,
on'the return of a group of Italian Intelligence officers
from a staybehind training course in London, that the
training was strictly limited to general orientation
and instruction, without specific application to the
Italian situation. He added that the.British would
probably now propose a more concrete form of operational
. collaboration in staybehind matters, remarking that there
has been indication of British desire to .jdiiwith. CIA
in .a tripartite approach to a staybehind program.
Briefed by the Chief, OSO/Canal Zone, Maj. Gen. L. J.
Whitlock, commanding USARCARIB, extended his best wishes
to thd DCI together with assurance of full support to -
CIA activities in the Panamawea
(CONTINUED)
TOP SECRET 19 DECEMBER 1951 COPY;- 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.