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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. 51 …with the State Security organization headquarters in Brussels.. The Chief of State, Security has been a…
  • p. 84 …Ambassador to Belgium Murphy views favorably an OSO/Brussels suggestion that CIA assign an officer to…
  • p. 97 …OSO OSO/Brussels has forwarded microfilm copi s of Belgian . State Security agent dossiers and informant…
  • p. 105 …operation brought to the attention of OSO/Brussels in its late stages. Sir Edward Travis, Director…
  • p. 111 …fact that the Czech ;ilitary Attache; in Brussels was long penetrated by'a Dutch-Belgian double…
  • p. 131 …through the" British Secret Service representative in Brussels that there was no. tripartite British-Dutch-U…
  • p. 147 …a who learned during a trip .to Brussels that 'tripartite program of this kind in cooperation…
." ' , TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,27 Sept.- 8:30 AM,28 Sept.
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
00 (Cont'd)
A courier dispatched by an OSO team operating in Albania has
re-entered Greece and is being debriefed.
Brigadier Gambier-Parry, Director of Conaunications for the
British Secret Service(M-6), and Colonel Munn, Director of the
M-6 Training Division, will spend the day of 26 October in
Washington en route to Canada. They will return. to Washington
on 1 November and will then be available as long as necessary
for discussions with CIA officials.
OPC
Two more messages have been received from the agent team dropped
into Lithuania in April. It now seems clear that, some kind
of 'organized resistance movement exists and that, while a certain
number or its members live surreptitiously in the forests,
the majority work at regular jobs. .:The team reports that it is
preparing drop zones and a reception committee for future air
support operations.
4
DD /A
Mr. Pforzheimer has been informed by Mr. Borden, Director of the
Staff of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy,
that the Committee is presently considering amendments to the
Atomic Energy Act which will allow a limited exc a of. certain
t es of "Restricted Data" in the atomic fie d
SEPl27 1951
-op -#COP OF 5.
TOP SECRET

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.