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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. 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
8:30 AM,20 Sept. 8:30 AM, 21 Sept.
iTEOF DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
0SO
The British Secret Service is clearly disposed to accept
ZIPPER as the future German Intelligence Service as a
result of discussions with OSO representatives in London
on 18 September.
Mr. Ray Tod, of G-2, discussed with OSO the Civil
Security/Counter-intelligence conference scheduled by
SHAPE for 15 October in Paris and stated that the
U.S. military services had not yet fonmulated their
views. Informed generally of the CIa position in
designating an observer, he indicated that General
Bolling might consult D/DCI on the matter.
An OSO Chinese agent parachuted into Honan Province on
19 September. A second operation directed against
Mukden failed when the agent refused to jump. Both
flygbts were without incident.
The Air Attache in Dublin will be unable to deliver
the DCI's letter of 7 August to Colonel: Bryan, Chief
of Irish Intelligence, until his return from Scotland
in late September.,
OPC
General Chennault's current secretary is an American citizen
named Ida Susan Boull. Headquarters assumes that she is the
secretary referred to in the exchange of cables in the field.
Headquarters has no information on "candle", the subject of the
message the secretary passed"inadvertently to BGMARQUE headquarters,
and is not aware of any other use being made of Mrs. Boull except
as a cut-out between BGMARQUE, CAT, and ar OSO agent in Taipei.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY f L OF 5. SEP 20 1951

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