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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…
70F .SE UET Mel'.hfy S
SECURITY INFO1LATION
DIRECTOR' S IDlG
8:30 AM,2' Dec. - 8:30 AM129 Dec.
\TE OF DA
)CUMENT IVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTIONS
The Rumanian announcement of the execution of 4 espionage
agents and the suicide of a fifth oorrectly identifies
the 3 whose capture was not previously announr-ed and
leaves little room for doubt that all 5 members of the
OSO-Dutch Intelligence tem dispatched from Athegs on
18 Octob@e? e'e in-ffat Captured. 4
Areliable;,ouroc in 0ermany has'reported that "the.
secouf$y ofricr" of the US Displaced Persons Gem-
mission orally transmitted sensitive CI :infosration
to an official of the International Rage'd Orgniza-'
tion. Since representatiens to thq :Obmission have
previously been necessary in thltreepect, ADSO hass
written the Commissioner to request au inmpcdtate
investigation adrep t,
Air Force recently requestei. CIA guidance oiapzjogect The Fbreq has been
independently initiated several .months -ago by Lt. Col. ilaXrmed.
Charlps Edwards, Asst. Air Attache in Istanbul, to proour
a -Soviet jet aircraft by defection pf . Soviet pilot in,
Rumania through- an utested Rumanian refugee. The.
I An la now adtitted. rduersaterrogation by ithe
Tur sh hadional Seogrity 6vicerthat ie neither has
nor'has had communication with Rumaia of any kind and
that he fabricated the entire py6ject to Justify the
monthly salary of 6 Turkish pounds paid him by Col.
Edwtrds. He confessed further to having bebn trained
in London by the British Secra: Service d g the
suimner of 1991 '
050 officers briefed a personal represeatative of Admiral
Fechteler on clandestine intelligence coverage of ain
Island.
(CONTINUED) 28 DElBER 19 1 COPY # DoF 7 .
TOP $ECRET x:6
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