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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
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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