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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.
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TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM,22 Sep 518:30 AM, 24 sep 51 ATE OF DATE - )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION - OSO Haakon Lie, Secretary of the Norwegian Labor Party, will come to the United States in November to collaborate with Harvard Professor Walter Galenson on a book dealing with Norwegian Communism. OSO has agreed to transmit through its pouch facilities background materials from Norwegian Labor Party archives in return for permission to microfilm them. The opportunity will also be used to discuss with Mr. Lie the expansion of cooperation between OSO and the Norwegian party's intelligence organization, which he controls. OSO efforts to induce the defection of Juliusz. Katz-Suchy, former Polish U. N., delegate. now at the ECOSOC conference in Switzerland, culminated in a direct personal approach on 18 September but have apparently failed. Katz-Suchy was. to have returned to Poland on 21 September. Ambassador to Iraq Edward S. Crocker met and discussed matters of mutual interest with Dale McAdoo, new Chief of OSO/Baghdad, in Washington. Mr. Robert N. Carew Hunt, British Secret Service officer and author of "The Theory and Practice of Comunism," leaves England on 9 October 1951 for a five-week visit in the U. S. He will "visit Washington and will spend some time at the Harvard University Russian Research Center. (Continued) Cojy # 2 .of 5. TOP SECRET 22 1951
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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.