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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.
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- - TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG 1 Oct. 2 Oct.. )ATE OF DATE 8:30. AM, - 8:30 AM, OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC (Cont'd) CIA Athens reports that the French Ambassador in Sofia was informed by a Greek diplomatic source that RADIO GOBIANIN is located in Greece and is not a real clandestine station but is U.S. sponsored. Word to this effect appears to have spread throughout the Sofia diplomatic community. After three days absence without leave, a Frankfurt OPC staff employee, Walter Reason (GS-7, Administrative assistant), sent a commercial cable from Rome requesting instructions on how to resign from the Agency. A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt. On orders from Washington, Reason was flown to the United States to be interrogated by I & S. The interrogation and polygraph.tests were' negative. Reason was discharged for abandonment of position) his passport, P 'and AGO cards have been sent by the Transportation Division to State and Army for cancellation. The case is considered closed. The second scheduled plenary meeting of the Organization Bureau of the CIA sponsored Council for the Liberation of the ~ Peoples of Russia has been delayed beyond the projected data of 30 September. The delay has been caused primarily by the Georgian groups who are taking longer than predicted in signing the - Stuttgart Protocol. These groups are, now expected to meet and reach an agreement among themselves on the Protocol on 5 October. The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the same purpose. 050 While in Paris the DOI invited Robert Hirsch, Director of the Surete Nationale, to visit CIA in Washington, suggesting also that Mr. Thayer be in ashington at the same time. Tha visit is tentatively scheduled for the first week in November. TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # , OF 5. T
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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.