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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.
“Mission Control”8 pages
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.