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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
.D8:30 AM, 3 Oct. 8:30 AM, Oct.
1ATE. OF" DATE
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (COnt'd)
OSO/Stockholm believes he will take the line that CIA
overestimates the extent of Swedish capabilities.
Two OSO agents have returned to Salzburg from a mission into
Hungary during which they buried a radio set.
OPC
Mr. Georges Gogh, a member of the General Committee of the
CIA-controlled National Committee for Free Albania is now in
New York City. He will initiate important changes in the makeup
and content of the NCFA newspaper, SHQIPERIA, prior to moving
the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next
three months. Mr. Gogh will remain approximately three weeks,
after which his place will be taken by Zef Pali of the Executive
'Committee.
Mr. David Dallin has resigned from the New York League, a
Russian emigre organization, giving as the reasons for his
resignation the League's "immoral" decision to collaborate
with the emigre organization NTS and the vidious nature and con-
duct of the CIA-controlled American Committee for the Liberation
of the Peoples of Russia which, accordirig to Dallin, has dictated,
forced decisions and bribed with promises of financial assistance.
Eugene Lyons, President of the American 'Committee, is drafting
a letter to the Novoyoe Russkoye Slovo which will deny Dallin's 7
accusations and attack his methods and motives.
COPY # LOF 5. OCT 3 1951
TOP SECRET

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.