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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,19 Sept. 8:30 AM, 20 Sept.
iTE OF DATE -
)CUMENT. RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
080- (Cont'd)
OSO will participate with Italian Ministry of the Interior
officials in a Joint operation covering Communist activities
in the port area of Genoa on a three-month trial basis.
After a month in Bulgaria, a team of experienced 00 agents
returned to Greece with OB coverage of he eastern Greek-
Bulgarian frontier.
Two members of an agent team dropped ino Albania four weeks
ago have returned to Greece.
Ambassador to Eire Francis P. Matthews,; in conversation with
the prospective Chief of OSO/Dublin, indicated that he had
acquired confidence in the capabilities of CIA during his
service as S cretary of the Navy.
COPY # oF 5. SEP 19 1951
TOP SECRET

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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.