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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
." ' , 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.