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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
-ATEOF DATE 8:30 AM, 2 Oct. - 8:30 AM, 3 Oct.
)OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
In reply to Mr. Gordon Gray's memorandum on planning with
respect to the Far East, he has been informed that it is
this Agency's view that Strategic Psychological Warfare
planning with respect to the Far East sad with particular respect
to Japan is a subject that should receive the- early consideration
of PSB.
DD /A
Mr. Harvey, Chief Clerk of the House Appropriations Committee,
called Mr. Pforzheimer to request .that he come and brief Congressman
Mahon, Chief of the Armed Services Appropriations Subcommittee,
regarding the appropriation for a CIA buildinj:contained in
the Armed Services Public Works Bill presently before Mr. Mahon'
Subcommittee. Mr. Pforzheimer briefed tr. Mahon on the urgent
needs for a building, together with cost figures, and pointed
out that Chairman Vinson and Chairman Russell of the House and
Senate Armed Services Committees, for reasons cf security, had
handled the substantive matter before their Committees
themselves. Mr. Pforzheimer requested Congressman Mahon to
do likewise if possible and Mr. Mahon agreed that it would
be preferable but that he would have to consider the problem
at least overnight and would inform us if any additional
appearance were necessary.
OCT 2 1951
COPY # OF 5.
TOP SECRET - -
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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.