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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. 108 …Rimanian King Michael has issued a hurried summons for Visoianu, President of the Rumanian National Committee…
  • p. 109 …Because of this, it is suspected that the British and King Michael may have made some…
  • p. 127 …C.King as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have Share Co. offered…
  • p. 141 …the US Merchant Marine Acad'ery at Kings Point, New York. He was well received and…
  • p. 155 …to the Panama Station requesting J. C. King, who arrives there on 21 Nov. to malke…
  • p. 178 …in .an accurate fore- cast of a probable coup d'etat prior to the King's…
  • p. 184 …time, Hassan will submit the program to King Farouk for approval. Stressed immediately will .be assistance…
  • p. 192 …Roosevelt have The intelligence requested that intelligence material of interest material and equipment to'King Faroul…
  • p. 196 …The King has written a letter ~to the Prime Minister agreeing in principle to the constitutiorial…
T0; SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 15 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 16 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Cont'd)
.two months of paramilitary, ,intelligence, communications,
and security training. This is the second such group to
receive covert training. in the U.S. uider this program.
Col. Daniel, Chief of Swiss Military ntelligence, has.
requested, through OSO/Bern, dIA' assiltance in securing.
the release of military equipment which the Swiss are
attempting to buy in the U.S. Col. Daniel was unsuccessful
during a U.S. visit earlier this year in, arranging release
of tanks for the Swiss Army. Recommendationson this
are being prepared for DCI.
Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported
in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret
information from the offices of hacellor Adenauer, the
Allied High Commissioners, and the French High Command -
in Western Germany. Further details are promised.
Mr. V. 0. Goodell, Chief of the Indonesian-Malaya Branch
of OSO, will survey the operations of all OSO stations
in his area during the first three months of 1952 under
cover as a State Department rubber consultant.
TOP SECRET COPY # / OF 5. QCi 15'1951

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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.