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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 $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
- TOP SECRET.-
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DIRECTOR'S LOG -
8:30 AM,29 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 0 Dec.
TE: OF -DA'TE--.
XCUMENT RECEIVED FROM -1 SUBJECT ,. . ACTION
OSO -
Army G-2 representatives discussed with OSQofficers't OSO reaf Wd Sts
case of a Hungarian agent of :CIC/Austria whose emijration position that it has
to the U.S. as a DP under G-2'sponsorship r, sbeenodelayed reported available -
by :seriously derogatory information furnished froOSO nmdiption, without
files to other Government- agencies. The 02 offic2r . iagki any determinaa1.nn
advised. that exhaustive overseas investigatien by Ar' asd .on it, and
- had disproved the allegations implicit On s data :gested than 04i2 rviw
-2 additio1. efficers
involved 1k the case
prior to'presenting it to
- -State,
After discussion with Gem. Charles E Hart, Chik Qf
the U.S. Military Mission in Athens, Ambassador
- Peunloy has acted to minimize the damage CIK
interesta in Greece which inight be causecP the -
- -sudden replacement of Gen. Nikolopoulas aa Wiictor
of Greek Intelligence by a sucbessor Lis sympathetic-
to the U.S. As a.result, Lt. Gen.. Grigorppoulos, Chief
of the Greek General Staf$f has given assurance that
ileklopoulos vit.ramai2jmfull oontrel- of tho of:ice -
for 2 to 6 sontvi du'ing theorientation of his rejlaoement
and'wlin no. event be removed withoutb U.S. consent based
on satisfaetion with his successor. Thia expedient gains
time for the possible accession af Gen. Papagos ,to power -
within the next few months, in which case Nikolpbulos -- Y
will be retained, and in any case insures the:ecise of_
U.S. influence in selecting an alter"at rep acest, if
the present designee is inaccaptable..
OPC .
The Germans are insisting in .the European defense 'treaty
- that a clause be inserted which would in effect, mean the -.
(O4TINUED) 29.DECERBER 1951 COPY # OF 7.
TOP SECRET -

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