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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 - -
Noted i 0DC'
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 3 Oct. - 8:30 AM, 4 Oct.
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
The German Internal Security Service has discovered a
penetration of the Government Printing Office in Bonn through
which sensitive official documents have been furnished to an
unknown intelligence service and to the Genzan Social Democratic
Party. Timely reporting of the development by an OSO
penetration agent has enabled OSO to forestall-compromise by
turning over to the German Service one batch of the documents
recently offered for inspection. Although the 030 operation
appears to be in the clear, the involvement of 'the German
Social Democratic Party through the secretary of its leader,
Kurt Schumacher, may precipitate-a scandal.
A British Secret Service agent in charge of the British stay-
behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con-
fidence that this program may be turned over to CIA for
financial reasons. OSO infers that the British may ask CIA aid
in supporting it.
The Belgian Minister of Justice is considering legislative measures
to protect the Belgian Security Service from further intrusion
by other government agencies. He has asked for information on
U.S. practices for the protection of intelligence files.
General J. Lawtn Collins il planning a purely personal visit
in Stockholm 8-10 October with his daughter, the wife of an
OSO Station member. The Embassy and the Army Attache have
cleared with the Foreign Office and are atterpting to minimize
the official reception to avoid possible misinterpretation of
the visit.
Dr. Thede Palm, Chief of the Swedish Intelligence Service, is
willing to discuss all CIA-proposed topics during his visit to
Washington but is unwilling to comment beforehand on the agenda.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # _ OF 5. OCT 3 1951

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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.