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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. 67 …July by his elder brother offering covert US assistance to maintain the autonomy of Tibet. The…
  • p. 84 …usefulness if the Dalai Lama remains in Tibet and, accordingly, that CIA could make no commitments…
  • p. 157 …ticable, and that we should a plane be flown into Tibet for the evacuatioi simply reiterate…
  • p. 158 …Lhasa, and other Chinese his exit from Tibet must be troops believed to be stationed along…
TOP SECRET
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DIRECTOR'S LOG .
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,26 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 27 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
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Penetration of the Greek Communist Party has yielded
information that a plan to assassinate Paul A. Jenkins,
Deputy Chief of ECA in Athens, by 28 September has been
at least temporarily shelved to avoid police reaction
coincident with the anticipated arrival of certain Greek
Communist leaders from abroad. Chief,%OSO/Athens has been
instructed to inform the Ambassador and rir. Jenkins and to
suggest that protective measures be taken.
A British Secret Service informant has reported that Belgian
Judicial Police action against the Charleroi section of
Belgian State Security grows out of charges by disgruntled
staff members against the Charleroi office chief of improperly
using government gasoline and funds. U.S.Ambassador to '
Belgium Murphy intends to make an informal expression of
concern to the Minister of Interior over the precedent
established in this case.
The husband of a Greek woman gynecologist in Athens has complained
to the U.S. Embassy of damage to his family's reputation arising
from court proceedings between his wife and a female Greek
employee of CIA's joint U.S.-Greek Communist project. He
alleges that the employee requested a false certificate of
pregnancy for use in blackmailing an OS. staff officer. 'An
effort is being made to clarify the Iutter and- handle it as
quietly as possible in Athens.
050 is developing an operation built around a Finnish Army
reserve officer which will provide intelligence coverage .
of Soviet Karelia and the Porkkala Zone. of Finland and
facilitate organization of a Finnish staybehind network.
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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.