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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…
DIRECTOR'S LOG -
A.TEOF DATE 8:30 AM, 17 Septe- 8:30 AM, 18 Sept-
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
Mr. William Huie, Editor of the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will
magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported how coordinate
Mr. Forrestal employed a $50,000 "bribe$ to help settle the action with
French railway strike in 1947. Mr. Huie notes that: DD/P and DD/A.
a. This incident has. been omitted from the Forrestal.
papers now being published by the Herald-Tribune
Syndicate.
b. This money was carried to France by a Naval intelli-
gence agent and Admiral Hillenkoetter arranged to
make these contributions deductible.
c. Le Figaro in Paris has purchased rights to the
Forrestal papers and is disappointed about the omission
of the above "bribe".
Huie has requested us to either confirm or deny this story.
OSO
A Soviet defector recruited in Germany and trained as a W/T
agent in Japan parachuted into the USSR near Khabarovsk on
15 September from a sterilized B-26 manned by a Japanese
agent-crew. No ground reaction was reported.
Mr. Daniel D. Hunter, former OSO officer being reemployed in
Paris by CIA, leaves for London today to be briefed by Colonel
Bette in preparation for duty as CIA member of the Secretariat
of the SHAPE Clandestine Committee.
OPC
The Chinese Nationalist Air Force dzopped 10,000 leaflets on
Ch'uang Chou on 10 September. in another CIA-directed psychological
warfare operation against southern Etkienprovince.
(CONTINUED) COPY # _L_ OF 5. SEP 17 1951
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