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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. 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
8:30 AM,5 Septembea:30 AM, 6 September
ATE OF DATE-
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
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Julius Katz-Suchy, former Polish U.N. delegate now
representing Poland at the ECOSOC conference in Geneva,
is believed to be out of favor and about to be handled
according to the pattern established for former Czechoslovakian
Foreign Minister Clementis. OSO and OPC are attempting
to exploit this situation by inducing him to defect.
The Security Branch of the Indonesian Police organization has
been given responsibility for the protection of President
Sukarno. An 050 staff agent, who acts as advisor to the
Indonesian Police, las been asked to draft a plan of training
and operation.
OSO briefed Captain Donald T. Wilber, who is being assigned
as Naval Attache in Athens, on the OSO role in Greece.
OPC
Six CIA agents have been named in a public broadcast
by the Bulgarian government as having been convicted of
espionage. Most of these agents were infiltrated during
May. A detailed report follows.
Associated Press correspondent. Williams and photographer
Lipp arrived at Saipan on 27 August to report on Interior Depart-
ment activities there. They are known to have inquired from
natives about the Interior Department camp. To date, however,
they have neither visited nor requested permission to visit
CIA's Saipan paramilitary training camp.
A group of CIA supported Nationalist guerrillas landed on
Wu Chiu Island, off the Chinese Mainland, on 3P August. The
group will be resupplied by air. Two more leaflet drops
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # _L OF 5. SEP

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