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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.

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  • p. 70 …a meeting in either Washington or Col. Hansen New York with not more than a dozen…
  • p. 164 …on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a…
  • p. 172 …the press. Both - Col. Edwards and Col. Hansen advised informally that we' could not give significant…
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a ®TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
4TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,10 Oct. - 8:30 AM, 11 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - - -CTION
OPC
CIA has infomed the Department of State that it- would consider
the maintenance of a Tibetan group abroad of questionable
usefulness if the Dalai Lama remains in Tibet and, accordingly,
that CIA could make no commitments regarding any such group.
Twenty-one Albanian agents, including'several W/T operators,
are being flown from CIA's covert training school in Germany
to Athens. It is expected they will be infiltrated into
Albania immediately following their arrival in Greece.
Twenty-six additional Albanian recruits will be sent to
Germany for training on the return flight.
OSO
In meeting OSO's candidate for assignment to the Embassy in Warsaw,
Ambassador to Poland Joseph Flack and Mr. Harold Vedeler, of the State
Department, raised more difficulties than had previously appeared
with respect to his cover position... OSO.participants in the conversation
now feel that State will not willingly accept an OSO assignment to Warsaw,
even though the candidate himself seemed to make a good personal
impression..
An S/W message from Poland reports that the Polish Government will
expel representatives of the American Scantic Lines from Poland
on 1 December. This action will deprive OSO of the services of a
contract agent who -has been in that area for the past nine months.
Ambassador to Belgium Murphy views favorably an OSO/Brussels
suggestion that CIA assign an officer to assist M. Woot de Trixhe,
of the Belgian Security Servicej in revamping his organization.
Although the suggestion has not been broached to him, the OSO
Station Chief feels that M. oot de Trixhe would.be receptive to
it in view of glaring defects disclosed during the recent government
investigation of the Charleroi office of his Service.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) .COPY # 1 OF 5. OCT 10 195

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