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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
~TEOF DATE - 8:30 AM, 10 Oct. 8:30 AM, 11 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
-S0 (Cont'd)
Air Commodore James A. Easton, Assistant Chief of the British
Secret Service, will be available, in late November for meetings
with CIA officers during a brief stop in Washington en route to London
from the Far East.
Major General Charles Haydon, chief planner for the British Secret
Service, indicated that he plans to leave in about ten days for
Singapore.
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A radio intercept fran Tirana deals with the arrest of spies
connected with the "Free Albania Movement." . This item was
not given regular dissemination by FBID'but was immediately
distributed to appropriate offices of CIA. Since a great deal
of material on this subject will probably be forthcoming in
the next few weelCs, continued deletion from the several media
of regular.disseminaticn may cause unfavorable comment by
the Departments of State and Defense.
MISCELLANEOUS
TOP SECRET . - COPY # _ OF 5. OCT 10 1951

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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.