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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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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