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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
8:30 AM,6 Sept. - 8:30 AM, 7 Sept. WI
ATE OF DATE ATO
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
An interim report from the German Station states that the charges
of Brutal interrogation made by the HICOG Director of Prisons
are believed generally accurate. CIC personnel and Czech agents
attached to 030 roughly interrogated Csechoslovakian Intelligence
agents who had penegrated an OSO operation. The investigation
is continuing.
On 12 September Marshal Tito will decorate a high-level OSO
agent for his services as representative of a U.S. welfare
organization.
Swedish Intelligence sugcessfully dispatched three agents by
sea to Estonia on 2 September. The dispatch boat successfully
evaded a Soviet patrol craft which followed it on the return
trip. O5 has supported this operation and will receive
the intelligence it produces.
On debriefing by the OSO case Officer, Dr. Charles H. Morgan,
prominent classical archaeologist who was briefed prior to a
three-weeks' visit to Greece in August, reported that his
stay had been too short to permit the broad contacts he had
hoped to make among Greek officials or to allow him to collect
significant intelligence information.
OPC
The Burmese Prime Minister informed U.S. Ambassador Key on
3 September that the Burmese Cabinet had decided to defer
reference on the Li Mi matter to the UN until after termination
of the San Francisco conference in order to forestall any
possible attempt by the USSR delegation to make political capital
of the development. The Prime Minister said the Foreign
Minister would notify Ambassador Key before the action is taken
ultimate]. TO eReT (-IED n 4 / ri e EP 199

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