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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.

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“Rome”9 pages

  • p. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
- TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
A.TEOF DATE 8:30 AM,18 Sept - 8:30 AM,19 Sept.
JCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
ADMINISTRATION (Cont'd)
Times of 16 September that he has asked CIA for information
that the Communists were extorting cash subsidies and
financial support from certain Italian industries. Senator
Ferguson has now written the CIA Legislative Counsel regarding
this matter. Preparation of a reply is being coordinated
through the Deputy Director and DD/P. When all pertinent
CIA information on this subject has been correlated, the
Deputy Director will make recommendations as to appropriate
reply to Senator Ferguson.
TOP SECRET Copy # of S SEP 18 1951

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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.