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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. 67 …July by his elder brother offering covert US assistance to maintain the autonomy of Tibet. The…
  • p. 84 …usefulness if the Dalai Lama remains in Tibet and, accordingly, that CIA could make no commitments…
  • p. 157 …ticable, and that we should a plane be flown into Tibet for the evacuatioi simply reiterate…
  • p. 158 …Lhasa, and other Chinese his exit from Tibet must be troops believed to be stationed along…
TOP SECRETr
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,28 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 29 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM . TO SUBJECT ACTION
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Otto Skorzeny, ex-Nazi paramilitary expert has offered
through the Asst. U.S. Air Attache in hadrid to. provide
to U.S. intelligence information obtained from penetration l/
of a Soviet espionage ring in the Western Zone of Germany.
OSO's iNadrid representative has requested that Skorzeny be
required to furnish more details before a meeting with
appropriate U.S. officials can be arranged.
OSO is arranging through the U.S. Air.Attache in Stockholm
to have Danish pilots with Scandinavian Airlines briefed
for their flights through satellite countries'.
The Director of the Security Division of AEC, has
written the ADSO complimenting OSO for its surveillance of
Sergio de Benedetti, AEC employee, during his recent
European travels.
OPC
Gen. Eisenhower has expressed to CIA consultant Edward. h.
Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced
Study, the view that psychological warfare operations
designed. to strengthen our NATO allies would, in his
opinion, be more productive than psychological warfare .
directed against our enemies. He has asked Professor
Earle to disucss the matter with interested .private.
individuals in the U.S., in particular Gen. Donovan. He
believes that these operations should be conducted by private
organizations and that the U.S.Government should not be
overtly associated with them.
Negotiations with Turkish authorities re reorganization of
the Turkish police and security services appear to have
stalled, at least temporarily. Functions which CIA hoped
TOP SECRET (CONTIMUED) COPY / j OF 5. SEP 28 19

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