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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 N o
EOF DAT 8:30 AM, 2-Oct. - 8:30 AM, 3 Oct.
)OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM ' TO . . SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
An OSO agent recruited in Finland has returned from a
two-week cross-border mission in the Karelian Isthmus
and is being debriefed. Owing to the sensitive cover
situation of OSO/Helsinki, this operation has been
handled. through the local U.S. Army Attache.,
OPC
The Chinese Nationalist Air Force dropped an additional
30,000 leaflets over Fukien Province in a CIA-directed
operation on 27 Sept, bringing to lh5,000 the total
dropped during the month of September.
Arrangements have been made with the Chinese Nationalist
- Air Force for night and possibly day photographic missions
over the Chinese mainland with the next two months. Western
Enterprises Inc., the -BG.iARQUE cover organization, will
furnish photographic equipment and technicians. The U.S.
Military Attache at Taipei will furnish FEAF with copies
of photogr'aphs taken. The Military'Attache will also
establish a symbol to be affixed to the photographs which
.will give Western Enterprises a credit line.
MISCELLANEOUS
In a letter to DCI, Mike Cowles indicates he believes it
would be worthwhile to hold a meeting in either Washington or Col. Hansen
New York with not more than a dozen top newspaper editors,
press service executives and news magazine officials to give
them a confidential briefing on CIA.
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