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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
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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