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Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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. 53 …with troops from Fort Eustis. The OSO Registry processed 2,912 outgoing pouch items during the…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
AE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 26 Septn 8:30 AM, 27 Sept.
JCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
MISCELLANEOUS
DCI has received a letter from President Truman indicating that:
(a) considerable progress has been made in the development Sent to DD/A
of plans to assure the continued and efficient operation of to note and
Government under times of emergency'such as enemy attack;, return1 to Mr.
(b) further steps need.to be taken, however, and he is Larocque.
anxious that maximum planning be completed now; and
(c) he has asked Mr. David H. Stowe to discuss this matter
with DCI.
COPY# / OF 5. SEP 26 1951
TOP SECRET

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