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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 -
SECURITYINFOR~uTiO -
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 26 Dec. - 8:30 AM-27 Dec - -
ATE OF DATE - -
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM -To SUBJECT :-T
OSO Cont'd. - -
-. the Crimea. Radio contact with this agentda last
made on 21 .July195.
The French Ministry of the ntdiior has$een cr tiaei
daily: the "ineffectivenesse of $Obert 3irach. Director
Sgeneral of Itie Freh Srkte Nationale. This supports
durrent rumors that IE.'Hirsch will soon resign. O're n
didal, Chie$ of th@,ureters unls gnes Generaux ---
rumored as a possible successor.
- SC-
- . Lay, NSC, express~d apprecistion and~s 5ristlon
for high degree of cooperation and assistance 'kitdered-
by CIA staff entatives Lowel s and Samtie -
Cabaugh on theSpecial Committee o. s. dest, ---
Mr. Gray states that he-had sat up a briefing with DD/P (Col. T yl
Col. Johnrton, AD/PC, for certain key mabers of P58 for rec tio
Staff on.Friday,:.28 Decemd* , xn eroquests 4 and act
on brfefing for individuals They aret - Tract
-.. Barnes;.Deut Director; almer Mutnam, DirectoreC
Growp and Georg e.Morgan (provided he has dined -.
by 2DDecember:) -
S - TOP SECRET 26 DECEMER 191 r

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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.