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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 IO00
8:30 AM, 28 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 29 Dec.
TEOF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM T0 SUBJECT ' .'ACTION
OPC
A three-man team will be sent into Albania overland to
detern.ne the effect of the recent propaganda leaflet
and supply drops in that country. This is aonersnot
mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred
the necessary information on the 4ffedtiveness of the -
CIA drops.
Two junks dispatched to rendezvous point to pick up
communications teams bound for Chinese guerrillat
columns,were seized by the Hong Kong police prior to
contact, and towed to Hong Kong harbor on 22 J'ec. A
thtrd junk the SS Hobe- and tedk aboard, ,indigenous
agonts trained to couateract Communist it} tration. A
prelimipary report iAdicates that the opdration was not
compromised, although apparently the Bong Kong 'police
Vere informed to an unknswn extent.
CIA has successfuhr completed negotiations for the ex-
clusive use of Fort Randolph, Canal Zone, 'as' a reception
and rehabilitaton center for defectors and go agentsYwhenthe .usefulnesof such aliffstas -beq ted or ' .
scourity considerations require such act' e p e
of esta lishing suoh a center is to rebge'idv % control;the
defectors under secure conditiond, to oz'ient,.' em tothe
democratic way of life, and to provide duch language and
vocational training as may be essential to their self-
suppgrt in a&new environment, Upon completion of rehabilitation
of the individuals, they will be disposed of by resettlembnt
in foreign countries, principally in Latin America. 'The US
Army will provide cover, and the activity will be known as the
Army Civilian Rehabilitation Center.
Communications Received: DD/P.
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TOP SECRET
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