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Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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. 149 …of CIA, the State De- Albanian National Independence Day on 28 Nosvember. The Partment and represent…
  • p. 177 …OPC Plans for celebration of Albanian National Independence Day on 28 Nov. will be highlighted by…
  • p. 179 …in acknowledgement of greetings from the Committee marking the celebra- tion of Albanian Independence Day. Mention…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
* TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
-EOF DATE 8:30 AM, 2_Septa 8:30 AM,22 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
countries, will be accompanied by an essay contest designed to
stimulate thinking along similar lines.
CIA's two principal agents in Iran have received a letter from
Louis de Rochemont. informing them that their recently sub-
mitted scenarios.have been accepted by Hollywood. Arrangements
have been made to release this information to the press and
VOA will beam the story to Iran and the UK. The scenarios do
not exist. The intent of the letter and the attendant
publicity is to cover the substantial expenditures being made
by the agents in Iran who, ostensibly, are politically active
newspapemen of nominal means.
COPY# OF 5- SEP 21.1951
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.