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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. 74 …8:30 AM, )0CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO The Pentagon has warned EUCOM that…
  • p. 205 …Pentagon, to the possible a series of meetings with the service representatives on detriment of CIA…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,12 Oct. - 8:30 AM, 13 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
A Hungarian espionage personality, recruited and trained by
the Hungarian IS for the past several months for a mission
in Italy under business cover, has been apprehended by
Italian CE authorities and has agreed to act as a double
agent against -the Hungarian service.
Gen. Umberte Broccoli, Chief of. Italian Intelligence, has
returned from a visit to the U.K. sponsored by British-
Intelligence, during which he conferred with British CE
chiefs and inspected technical equi'pment and training
installations. No definite operational commitments were
made but, as a result of the visit, 7 Italian Intelligence
officers will attend a special British: Intelligence training
- course in the U.K. from November 1951 to 'ebruary 1952.
SHAPE's tripartite civil security/counterespionage conference,
to which CIA was invited to send a representative, has been'
-postponed from 15 October to 29 October. According to Maj.
Gen. Charles Haydon, this delay is due'to French inability
to agree on their representatives.
Mr. C. D. DeLoach, FBI liaison efficerto CIA, has been
promoted to the position of Inspector' and will assume new
duties. His successor will be ,Mr. Charles Bates. -
OPC
The first caching program for the U.S. Zone of Austria. has
been completed. Twelve caches, each consisting. of a 2300
pound "packagee of weapons, ammunition and explosives, were
buried.in Land.Salzburg and Upper Austria.
(CONTINUED)
COPI # L OF 5.
TOP SECRET ( LIa

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