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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
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM 12 Sept- 8:30 AM,
1 3 Sept.
2CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC.(Cont'd)
region of Gramsh was among the victims killed by the team
in a clash with Albanian security forces. CIA's Albanian
language clandestine radio, which is expected to go on the
air from Greece within the next few days '.,plans to exploit
this assassination.
A C-51 aircraft which has been reconditioned for CIA use
in German-based air support operations is being ferried
to Germany by a USAFE crew and is scheduled to leave
Westover. for Wiesbaden today.
The 1951 national fund raising campaign for the CIA-
controlled Crusade for Freedom opened yesterday. -Among
the speakers at a luncheon opening the New York City
fund drive were vice-President Barkley, David Sarnoff,
and Harold Stassen.
MISCELLANEOUS
Comments on ONE Special Estimate No. 5 (Vulnerability
of Communist China) prepared by a senior OSO representative
in Manila and Hong Kong for our Ambassador to the
Philippies at his request, hare been forwarded to AD/NE
by ADSFSO.
TOP SECRET COPY #_LOF 5. S EP12 15

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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.