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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…
:r TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 6 Sept. - 8:30 AM, 7 Sept-
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Con't)
CIA medical officials report that Robert Staton, the CIA agent
returned from Formosa after showing signs of mental depression
following a jeep accident, is mentally unbalanced and
emotionally immature, and has an inferiority complex. The
medical officials state, however, that he could possibly prove
useful in a training assignment in the U..S. Staton is being
granted 30 days leave. During this period, possibilities for
a new assignment will be carefully explored.
Another CIA-directed leaflet drop has been made over Fukien
province on the Chinese Mainland, bringing to 70,000 the
number of leaflets dropped in the seven missions flown-by
Nationalist aircraft to date.
Dimitri A. DLmitrov, the Bulgarian agent who threatened to
expose CIA operations directed against Bulgaria from Greece
and thus became a disposal case, has arrived in Panama where
he will be detained.indefinitely in. an Army hospital.
COPY # ( OF 5. SEP 61951
TOP SECRET

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