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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. 2 …Chief of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should await the arrival of the official CIA…
  • p. 72 …stay- behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may…
  • p. 92 …Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret…
  • p. 107 …Tnis infonaation was brought to the attention of our representative in Madrid. ho requested that the…
  • p. 119 …On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache, Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly…
  • p. 131 …He will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951. Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in…
  • p. 168 …US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air…
  • p. 171 …official liaison with the Spanish Services in Madrid. A large US electronic instrument firm, which has…
  • p. 208 …Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the U.S. Legal Attache that the British…
  • p. 217 …OSO/Madrid, however, reports that the Chief of Spanish Intelligence wants the project to' continue on…
*. TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
.TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,17 Sept.- 8:30 AM,18 Sept.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
A successful resupply drop was made on the night of
14 September to a two-man agent team operating in the Kukes (northern)
area of Albania. This is the third time that this team has been
successfully resupplied by air.
The British have received another message from one of the two
British-supported teams dropped into the western Ukraine in May.
According to the message,
a. The agent has been unable to contact the Ukraine resis-
tance commander but indicates that the reaction of
the Ukrainians whom be has been able to see is
faborable to the British and Americans and their
proposals.
b. There are indications that the other British-
supported team was wiped out in aclash with Soviet
security police.
c. Data on safe contact points requested by the British
can be made available from the Ukraine.
COPY # / oF 5. SEP 17 1951
TOP SECRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.