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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.
“The Advance”9 pages
TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG .TE OF DATE -8:30 AM, 25 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 26 Sept. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION MISCELLANEOUS G-2 has requested that IAC prepare an estimate of the O/NE - A copy of the "Likelihood of the USSR Deliberatelg Initiating War request to Mr. Reber. - During 1952". Mr. Armstrong has forwarded: (a) State's draft position Mr. Becker. paper on the subject of security controls and the contractual arrangements with Germany; (b) preliminary comments of Defense on German contractual No. 2/1; and. (c) draft of a convention on security controls prepared - by Defense. He notes that State feels that (1) Item (c) above should not be discussed at the forthcoming working level three-power meeting in London next week; and (2) Item (c) should not in fact be included in a convention on security controls which must be published and ratified by legislative bodies, including the Bundestag. 00 The Tolstoy Foundation reported through the N.Y. Field Office that final steps in the legal commitient of defector M.I. Samarin (also known as Michael Gregory) at tie Institute of Living, Hartford, Conn., had run into difficulties. Samarin was removed from another institution to Hartford on 24 August, and Conn, law prescribes procedure culminating in examination, hearing and opinion by 2 independent psychiatrists, certifying that the individual's commitment is required in the interest of public safety. One of the 2.psychiatri 'tsroughtin for this purpose has expressed doubt as, to the diagnosisof. paranoiac schizophrenia. If his final decision should be that Samarin is not dangerously insane, Samarin would be discharged from the hospital. To arrange timely steps against this contingency, if possible, the Executive Director of the Tolstoy Foundation' and the assigned case officer in N.Y. will TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # j OF 5. SEP 25 1951
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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.