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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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TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,12 Oct. - 8:30 AM,13 Oct. DCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO A leading French banker and close friend of Ambassador Bruce has suggested that he accept a Soviet invitation,to attend the Economic Conference in Moscow this fall. OSO is balancing the value of his attendance against Ambassador Bruce's view that the taint of Communism resulting from the trip would prejudice his future usefulness as a source. Mr. Joseph E. Leininger, OSO officer stationed in the U.S. Embassy in Seoul from May 1948 te; June 1950, is to be awarded the State Dept. "Certificate of Comendation5 for outstanding performance urin& that assignment. Upon leaving Iran, Mr. W. Averill Harriman especially commended the Chief, OSO/Teheran, among ethers for outstanding service during Mr. Harriman's recent mission. % On 4 October 1951, Representative Fred Busby of llinois, member of the House Appropriations Committee, was told in conversation with Dr. Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome, that Italian police authorities are able to handle and contain any Communist move at the present time. Barletta ale praised the work of CIA.in Italy and suggested that activity of other American intelligence services in Italy be centered an4 co- erdinated in a single representation under CIA. Dr., Jiri Fial, CzechoslovakianConsul in Frankfurt, with whom .OSO has been in operational contact since CIC transferred his case to CIA last May, was officially recalled to Prague on 9 October, making official announcement of his defedtion necessary. He will move to .the Defector Reception Center in Frankfurt on 12 October, and HICOG will announce publicly that his request for asylum. has been granted. (CONTINUED) COPY# L OF 5. TOP SECRET - OCT 12 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.