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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. 67 …July by his elder brother offering covert US assistance to maintain the autonomy of Tibet. The…
  • p. 84 …usefulness if the Dalai Lama remains in Tibet and, accordingly, that CIA could make no commitments…
  • p. 157 …ticable, and that we should a plane be flown into Tibet for the evacuatioi simply reiterate…
  • p. 158 …Lhasa, and other Chinese his exit from Tibet must be troops believed to be stationed along…
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.