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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. 35 …the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported…
  • p. 46 …FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION ITEMS FROM COL. HANSEN Conversed with Drew Pearson at Doctors Hospital- late…
  • p. 70 …a meeting in either Washington or Col. Hansen New York with not more than a dozen…
  • p. 164 …on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a…
  • p. 172 …the press. Both - Col. Edwards and Col. Hansen advised informally that we' could not give significant…
  • p. 204 …Agency has requested our comment on Col. Hansen for direct an unsigned letter that Agency received…
-!-TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM,
1TE OF DATE-
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
TRNO.(Continued)
The CIA offices have interviewed the L6, professional trainees who
will graduate from the first 3-months'-course at the CIA Intelligence
School on 28 September, and have expressed approval of the high type
young men.and women comprising this first class.
The American Red Cross has expressed appreciation for the "grand
cooperation" of CIA personnel in the recent Blood Donor Campaign.
In a letter to Mr. Armstrong, Dr. Langer commends the Research &
Analysis Branch, Office of Intelligence, HICOG, for the excellence
of its reporting on political developments in Western Germany.
Dr. Langer also noted that as a consequence of a projected general
reorganization .of intelligence responsibilities in Germany, this
unit will be assigned to the Political Affairs Office, HICOG.
FBI has requested that we furnish thed our instructions to the -
"Dutchman" now in the U.S.
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.