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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. 2 …Chief of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should await the arrival of the official CIA…
  • p. 72 …stay- behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may…
  • p. 92 …Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret…
  • p. 107 …Tnis infonaation was brought to the attention of our representative in Madrid. ho requested that the…
  • p. 119 …On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache, Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly…
  • p. 131 …He will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951. Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in…
  • p. 168 …US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air…
  • p. 171 …official liaison with the Spanish Services in Madrid. A large US electronic instrument firm, which has…
  • p. 208 …Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the U.S. Legal Attache that the British…
  • p. 217 …OSO/Madrid, however, reports that the Chief of Spanish Intelligence wants the project to' continue on…
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 under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.