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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
4TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 4 Sept. 8:30 AM,5 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
Thailand who will have complete responsibility for the
purchase and delivery of food to those Li Mi units re-
maining in Burma.
State Dept. will advance no further argument designed
to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the
Li Hi situation to the UN. Within the UN, the US will
endeavor to delay decision on the matter until the
Japanese Peace Treaty is signed. Any suggestions re-
garding the possibility of interning Li Mi's troups in
Thailand or elsewhere, or the possibility of their re-
patriation to Formosa, will be raised by UN members other
than the US.
A covert CIA agent has been appointed Special 4ssistant' to
Republic of Korea President Rhee. This agent has been
instrumental in the change of attitude of the ROK Government
toward the US Government. It is anticipated that with careful
control this agent will develop into an outstanding deep-
cover agent in the Far East.
CIA has received for evaluation the detailed specifications
on a new sub-machine gun presently under development by the
Belgian Army. The reported characteristics of this weapon
indicate it may have advantage over existing types used in
clandestine warfare.
A CIA agent in Paris reports he has seen evidence that the
office of Cardinal Spellman has directed John McCloskey,
Director of Catholic Welfare in Europe, to obtain information
proving Irving Brown's "close connection with Harxist Socialist"
movements in Europe. Brown, European representative of the
AFofL, is the cut-out through which CIA advances funds for the
support of various Western European labor unions. The CIA
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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.