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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. 35 …the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported…
  • p. 46 …FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION ITEMS FROM COL. HANSEN Conversed with Drew Pearson at Doctors Hospital- late…
  • p. 70 …a meeting in either Washington or Col. Hansen New York with not more than a dozen…
  • p. 164 …on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a…
  • p. 172 …the press. Both - Col. Edwards and Col. Hansen advised informally that we' could not give significant…
  • p. 204 …Agency has requested our comment on Col. Hansen for direct an unsigned letter that Agency received…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM,\TE OF .DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION
OP- (Contid) .
Posters in Dresden, Halle, Cottbus, Erfurt and Rostock,
which ordinarily are pulled down within a few hours, remained
up for twelve to forty-eight hours. Authorities in each of.
the localities requested the return of their'security police.
from Berlin, but the Berlin SED chief reportedly threatened
to resign his responsibilities .for counter-intelligence and
counter-propaganda if his security forces were. depleted. With
this threat he retained his control over the provincial police.
None of the two hundred forty-eight men who took part
in the operations was caught.
An organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) representative
has stated to a CIA cutout, without-revealing his source,
that he has had recent news from the Ukraine telling of
determined efforts by Soviet security forces to stamp out
resistance. Between January and September, according to the
report, fifty OUN members were arrested. .Underground members
were instructed to discontinue contact with each other. The
"homeland" force wanted to send out couriers but did not believe
- that they would have much chance of getting through.
The NEW YORK TIMES published on its amusement page on 25 September
an announcement from the office of Louis de Rochemont that the producer
had acquired an original story dealing with the current oil crisis
in Iran, written by two young Iranian journalists. As peeviously
reported, the announcement, beamed to the UK and Iran by the VOA
on 26 September, is designed to cover the substantial expenditures
being made by the journalists, who are CIA's two principal agents
in Iran.
(CONTINULD) COPY # I OF 5. SEP 2 6 1951
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