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Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DE ROM8:30 AM, 13 Sept, 8:30 AM,1A Sept*
CUET RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Cont)
Testimony in the current Bucharest espionage trials has
accused two members of the U.S. Legation of complicity.
The fact that the former OSO Chief, of Station in Bucharest
has not been mentioned seems to indicate his success
in operating securely under very difficult conditions.
The European Director of Information for Radio Free
Europe has agreed to remove the RFE representative in
Trieste within six weeks. The latter has engaged
in unauthorized intelligence activities to the
prejudice of OSO operations in that area.
Roger Wybot, Chief of French internal security (ST),
has complained to CIA representatives of alleged U.S.
interference in North African affairs, saying that -
the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Jefferson Caffery, is
"openly encouraging North African nationalists and
personally dealing with nationalist agents." This
criticism of U.S. policy in North Africa follows other
similar indications received recently through French
intelligence channels and has been associated with OIA
requests for bases in that area.
Wybot has also advised that he has been assigned to
prepare the French reply to a SHAPE request for French
suggestions on NATO peacetime counter-espionage
organization. He will propose an organization similar
. to the International Criminal Police Commission.
Colonel Betts reports that Major .General Charles Haydon
would welcome a CIA invitation to visit Washington in
October. Colonel Betts suggests the invitation await
the outcome of war planning discussions in London.
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