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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,28 Sept - 8:30 AM, 29 Sept.
OCUMENT RECEIVED PROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
would be removed from the obstructive and suspect Turkish
National Security Service are to remain within the jurisdic-
tion of the head of that organization, who appears to have
regained at least some measure of his former stature. Pros-
pects for the use of Turkish territory as a base for covert
operations into the USSR and the Balkans have improved,
however. Taking advantage of the cccasion of Turkey's
imminent entry into the NATO, U.S.Ambassador Wadsworth has
informed the Turkish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
of U.S. interest in conducting prospective operations from
Turkey into adjacent Communist areas. The 2 Turkish officials
expressed willingness to cooperate and have-agreed to the
conduct of negotiations and liaison for this purpose through
the Turkish General Staff, rather thPp the TNSS.
The League of Nazi Persecutees, an organization which has been
covertly supported by CIA since it broke with the Communist
front association of Nazi Persecutees, is preparing for
active resistance in the East Zone of Germany and for
countereabotage operations in Western Germany. The League
has 20,000 members of Western Germany and moz'e than 500 in
Berlin and the East Zone. Its activities have been limited
previously to political and psychological warfare.
-CCOPY #J OF 5. Si28TOP SECRET SEl p28 1151

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