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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
)ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 5-Oct.- 8:30 AM, 6 Oct.
)OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
"Freedom by Truth for Asia". Philippines Defense Secretary
Ramon Magsaysay and noted American speakers have been invited
to attend.
Messages were received on 15 and 28 September from one
of the two British teams dropped into the Ukraine in mid-June.
The first stated that contact points could be kept open until
the end of October for the reception of a new British-controlled
Ukrainian team but cautioned that. conditidns'inside are extremely
difficult. The second confinned advice' prviously received that
the otheriBritish-controlled team dropped into the Ukraine in '
mid-June was wiped out by Soviet security forces. A group of
overland couriers traveling to contact the surviving team in
the Ukraine was successfully infiltrated icidns the Bavarian-
Czech border in late September.
An RAF plane flying from England to Egypt dropped 500,000
leaflets over Albania on the night of 28/29 September. One-
half of the cargo consisted of leaflets prepared by CIA.
MISCELLANEOUS
Navy has approved our training agreement for the purpose : Cl. Baird
of raining a limited number of selected career employees.
COPY # OF 5. - OC 51
TOP SECaET

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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.