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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 .
SECURITYINFORA!'I
DIRECTOR'S LOG
iATE OF DATE -8:30. AM,26 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 27 Dec.
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OP-
CIA's Chief Scandinavian Representative met on December 20
and 21 with the Secretary General of theNorwegian Social
Democratic Party to discuss the formation of a psychological
warfare stay-behind net in Norway and the support of the Social
Democratic current anti-Communist activities. Conversations.
on both subjects were most satisfactory, although the .
Secretary.General indicated he would prefer not to engage
in the formation of a psychological warfare stay-behind net
if the British were to be involved as a third partner.
OSO
The Hungarian announcement on 23 December tha 4 U.S. The damage to future
intelligence agents have been arrested in Hungary Hungarian operations by
ideritifies 2 by name. Weissengruber is anudSO agent bomprolnise of Salzburg
run by the Salzburg- base who entered Hungary on 0$ facilities is being as-
October. Baranyi is one of the agent prospects he sessed, but is not believed
was to recruit. 030 surmises that the other 2 may critical. The man-
be another Salzburg agent, who accompanied Weissengruber, smuggler who assisted the
and a second prospective recruit. agents to enter Hungary
and might have betrayed
them will be fully inter-
rogated and checked by
polygraph.
OSO officers in Washington have been discussing closer
oopperation ,and exchange of information on .Coimnist
activities .in Norway with Haakon Lie, Secretary of the
Norwegian Labor Party. Mr. Lie hesitates to expand
his cooperation with OSO, but has agreed t';furnish
monthly reports on the Norwegian Commuist Party; on
which he is considered an authority. -
The Turkish National Security Service repotted radio
contact on 19 Dec. with a joint OSO-Turkish agent in
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) 26'DECEMER 1951 1

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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.