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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. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
." ' , 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 above. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.