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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
70F .SE UET Mel'.hfy S
SECURITY INFO1LATION
DIRECTOR' S IDlG
8:30 AM,2' Dec. - 8:30 AM129 Dec.
\TE OF DA
)CUMENT IVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTIONS
The Rumanian announcement of the execution of 4 espionage
agents and the suicide of a fifth oorrectly identifies
the 3 whose capture was not previously announr-ed and
leaves little room for doubt that all 5 members of the
OSO-Dutch Intelligence tem dispatched from Athegs on
18 Octob@e? e'e in-ffat Captured. 4
Areliable;,ouroc in 0ermany has'reported that "the.
secouf$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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