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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…
TO" SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 15 Oct. 8:30 AM, 16 Oct.
'CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
The first issue of the OPC-supported, Vietnamese language,
weekly magazine- was released in Hanoi on 6 October and the
week following. The issue sold 23,000 copies at three piastres
per copy. It is a two-color magazine covering news, features,
local social problems, women's news, short stories, humor
and cartoons. It is produced entirely locally and has no
connection with USIS.
. OSO- -
As a result of slow development of the Aga Khan operation,
largely owing to the illiteracy and limited operational
potential of his followers, .the Aga has received the impression
that 00- wishes to. terminate it. 050 believes that an
attempt to evaluate the project at this time would-be
premature, since abortive efforts in.some areas have been
counterbalanced by promising development in others.
Mr. Emmet McCarthy, 050 officer who met tne..Aga in February
1951 as representative of the DCI, will therefore travel
to Paris on 16 October to clarify the :situation in discussion
with him and to brief the operation's new case officer.
Reporting the current trial of foreign. espionage agents in
Albania, Radio Tirana includes statements attributed to
the sole survivor of an OSO/Italian Naval Intelligence team
which operated in that area until it was wiped'out in
December 1950. OSO believes its participation was not
known to any member of the team. Raio Tirana ascribes
the operation to the Italians.
As a further step in the effort to establish control of
Indonesian Intelligence, eighteen Iudonesian intelligence.
officers are being brought clandestinely to the U.S. for
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY #.- OF 5. . OG15 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.