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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.
“The Advance”9 pages
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.