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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…
TOP SECRET-
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ITE OF DATE 8:30 AM,13 Sept - 8:30 AM, 24 Sept
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Continued)
A CIA agent in Iran is taking steps to counter the demonstra-
tions being planned by the Tudeh party for the Moslem Festival of Muh-
arram (October) in an effort to stage a comeback following Tudeh reversals
in July. The Tudeh party, according to our agent, is preparing to pro-
test against the mistreatanent of Tudeh members and to complain to the
central government that Iranians in general are living under oppressive
conditions. The CIA agent cannot stop these demonstrations, but, with
funds and other assistance furnished by CIA, is arranging for his own
agents to stage counte4iemonstrations.
A W/T message was received on 10 September. from the agent team dropped
into Lithuania in April 1951. The message was from the second in
command; the team leader having been reported previously as killed in
an encounter with MGB security forces.'; The agent reports that he is
expanding his activities, increasing his contacts and preparing for the
reception of additional agents. He asks for assistance, to include a
radio operator and propaganda specialist, a portable printing press and
money, preferably in rubles.
A preliminary report from Athens states that the aircraft used in their
resupply drop to an OSO team in Albania on 11 September returned safely.
There is no report yet as to the success of the mission.
- Copy # L of 5 SEP 1 1951
TOP SECRET

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.