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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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 under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.