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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. 33 …Johnson, 5th Naval District relative to logistical support of ISOLATION through Navy Supply Depot at Norfolk…
* 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 above. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.