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DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 27 Septe- 8:30 AM, 28 Sept.
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OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
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The British Secret Service representative in Washington delivered
to OSO a list of items proposed as an agenda for the conversations
with Major General Charles Haydon which begin in Washington
on 5 October. Points included are: SO operations as a weapon
in Europe, planning to meet SHAPE's wartime needs for covert
operations 'and secret intelligence, future of WUCC,peripheral
planning problems in Europe, Britieh views on civil security
and counterespionage in support of SHAPE, and principles governing
SHAPE's allocation of SO targets to clandestine services.
The Chief of French Intelligence in Saigon admitted serious
deterioration in French coverage of Communist-controlled Indochina
and South China, owing to effective counterespionage and with-
drawal of French administrators from adjacent areas. This apparent
frankness could be a gambit to forestall CIA's impending request
for increased information on Indochina or a move preliminary
to French requests for CIA information on South China or
increased material support of French operations.
OSO is microfilming Belgian State Security files being held to
protect them against inspection by the Belgian Judicial Police
during its current investigation of State Security's Charleroi
office.
Mr. Higgs, Deputy Director of the State Department Office of
European Affairs, has agreed with Ambassador Allen's proposal
that the new Chief, OSO/Belgrade be accredited. directly to
General Rankovic without going through the Yugoslav Foreign
Office. The Chief of Station departs for his new assignment
on 4 October.
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