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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
4 "TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 20 Sept. 8:30 AM(,21 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
.PC (Cont'd)
have approached the State Department. The State Department has
approached CIA. The Chief, Inspection and Security Staff,
is handling the matter.
OPC Hong Kong suggests that if HTMERLIN has reached- the
overt stage at this time, it appears probable that General Now
would rally to the flag, bringing the '19,000,000 bucks with him.
A clandestine C A Albanian language transmitter, identifying
itself as the VOICE OF FEE ALBANIA, stai-ted regularly scheduled
shortwave broadcasts into Albania on 18 September. The trans-
mitter is in the vicinity of Athens but'its location will not
be divulged in the broadcasts to Albania. No attempt to
establish the transmitter as being located within Albania
will be made, but it is anticipated thattihis inferrence may
gain credence.
MISCELLANEOUS
Mr. Gordon Gray has forwarded for appropriate action by CIA DD/P
Plan TAKEOFF which has been approved by PSB.
COPY #L OF 5. SEP 20 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.