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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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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