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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. 19 …A six-man CIA-controlled Albanian agent team crossed the border into Greece on 3 September…
  • p. 28 …Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved prospects of controlling Bulgarian intelligence activities in Northern…
  • p. 30 …d) On a scouting mission to Shi Cheng Tao, the CIA-controlled Korean fishing vessel SEA…
  • p. 73 …Two OSO agents have returned to Salzburg from a mission into Hungary during which they buried…
  • p. 76 …time mission to Sofia, where he will recruit a resident agent. OPC A CIA-controlled guerrilla…
  • p. 139 …Joint' American Nilitary Mission to Aid Turkey(JAAT) as cover for CIA-controlled Paramilitary operations in…
  • p. 174 …known in official US quarters, conferred "in strictest confidence" with the BGMARQUE Chief of Mission on…
  • p. 234 …This is aonersnot mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred the…
- . 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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