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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. 11 …Forces in Germany." OPC Headquarters has received from the field for chemical analysis, a sample of…
  • p. 21 …forces have cut it off from underground headquarters and requested, in view of the extremely difficult…
  • p. 28 …another agent recently arrived from the same headquarters. Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved…
  • p. 38 …Suggest you come as soon as feasible." Headquarters has no further information oilthe matter to date…
  • p. 40 …Chennault's secretary, Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier, passed a message to…
  • p. 41 …OSO The Chief Operations Officer of CIC/Trieste conferred with an unidentified official at Headquarters of…
  • p. 43 …Headquarters has no information on "candle", the subject of the message the secretary passed"inadvertently to…
  • p. 50 …reports that the message misdelivered to BGMARQUE Headquarters in Taipei by General Chennault's secretary was…
  • p. 51 …conducted jointly with the State Security organization headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security has…
  • p. 67 …At headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution channels. COPY # of 5. TOP…
  • p. 86 …RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC Headquarters has authorized dGR Uto drop -2 guerrilla contact teams…
  • p. 98 …Tudeh leaders and the raiding of party' headquarters where the police confiscated propaganda material, etc. Our…
  • p. 99 …This proposal is being considered by Headquarters. On 15 October, 2 guerrilla teams were dropped successfuy…
  • p. 100 …Aerial photos cdnfirmed the destruction of a North Koeah Army batallion headquarters at the Mine and…
  • p. 101 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the Government Communications Headquarters, British' counterpart of AFSA, will retire in…
  • p. 104 …Plans and Training-- the executive and administrative headquarters, .(2)I Escape and Evasion--new E & E…
  • p. 105 …Sir Edward Travis, Director of the British Goernment Communications Headquarters, British counterpart of AFSAy will visit…
  • p. 106 …and East Germany have visited their West Berlin headquarters since 1949. Forty-five thousand of these…
  • p. 112 …Thomas that he be given assistance in:.establiahing the, headquarters for the trust territories'in Saipan…
  • p. 119 …in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters. On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant…
  • p. 122 …Washington in detail and has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our Hong Kong liaison…
  • p. 131 …Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London, will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951…
  • p. 139 …OPC's facil ty at Camp Chinen,. Headquarters has Okinawa, has requested authority to terminate the…
  • p. 162 …A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been headquarters in…
  • p. 168 …Paris, in case Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con- tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors…
  • p. 169 …If .this is and instructed to keep not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed…
  • p. 171 …The Spanish police officer in Barcelodna whd handles the Headquarters has decided playback of a captured…
  • p. 189 …Millard Lewis, A-2 USAFE, has informed Chief, OSO/ Headquarters has con- Germany.' that a CIC…
  • p. 194 …OPC Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia- tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London…
  • p. 200 …in 1948 has been called to Party- Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to be restored…
  • p. 209 …202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and…
- . TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATEOF DATE 8:30 AM,15 Sept.- 8:30 AM,17 Sept.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
A penetration of the Greek Communist Party yields evidence that
"a new surprise" along the lines of the Greek Communist murder of CBS cor-
respondent George Polk in 1948 is being organized. No further details are
available. OSO is making every effort to establish the authenticity of
the penetration.
U. S.-British-Greek discussions of stay-behind operations have been
suspended owing to Greek General Staff insistence on locating the main com-
munications base iri Greece, directly contrary to sound stay-behind doctrine.
The currently unstable political situation in Greece makes immediate resolu-
tion of this problem impossible.
Pakistan Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan has told. U. S. Ambassador Warren
that he wants intelligence liaison confined to contact between his Director
of Intelligence and the OSO State-cover representative, with disagreements
to be resolved by himself and the Ambassador. The. Ambassador will so advise
the DCI. The Director of Pakistan Intelligence also contemplates eventual
assignment of an intelligence officer to Washington for liaison with CIA,
a move which:OSO will discourage.
A member of a dissident group of French Communists has approached an officer
of OSO Paris to request financial aid for the group. The Paris Station, in
requesting joint OSO/OPC consideration of the matter, emphasizes that Mr. Irving
Brown must play no part in the operation.
General Effisio Marras, Italian Chief of Staff for Defense, now en route to Ottawa
for NATO talks, will be in Washington 22-25!September and hopes to meet with the
DCI. He may seek a CIA invitation to Geri. Umberto Broccoli, Chief of the Italian
Combined Intelligence Services, to visit the US since the latter has been a guest
of French and British Intelligence.
Captain Guy M. Liddell, Deputy Director of the British Security Service will be
available for discussion with CIA officials during a visit to Washington
17-19 September.
(CONTINUED) Copy # of 5.
TOP SECRET SEP 15 1951

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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.