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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 -
- ; . S CJ RI I T n 1 l ' ODIEEC TOR'S ID G-
8:30 AM27 Dec -8:30 AM, 28 -Dec-
DATE OF DATE
DOCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION.
OPC -
A propaganda supply team in Germany has prepared over
half a million itens of propaganda to celebrate Stalin's&
72nd birthday. Among them are 50,O0 posters with a
pioturevof the aged -Stalin saying, xd tales come
and go,ffa pla, on the remate Stalin oncg made; -Tjst--
- dHitler come aiid go 4 Ten thos3and of tIes -
postd in East:GermiaW and 0100)0 in est -erm
- nother .400 0O small stickers ~howing an almost .mpty
hourglass and either a death head or Stalin's profile
also .are being put up in the Soviet Zone of Germany. And
finally 100,000 leaflets will be sent into fast Germany
by rocket wishing a Merry Christmas to a1 and an unhappy
birthday to Stalin. -
- r-y SC DCI To NSC St stant
(Mr Stou rmua-
tion of coo ni? ee CIA
position
The AEC pr pasa
- - s been referred to Senior 193C.Staff fornpreparietion-
of a recommrendation- for Council'and Presidential
consideration.
Gordon Gray DCI In a letter to DCI, tr, Gray suggests tua8 a Fepre D Pfor-preparation
sentative of CIA attend staff meetings helin M ' P. foreplyrDCI's
Gray's office at noon each day. 'ir. Gray is making gnatur
a similar suggestion to the other 2 PSB mebers
(CGONTINUD) -
-TO SECRT-
- -27 DECEMBER 1951 COPY# F-

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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.