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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…
TOP SECRET QC
DIRECTOR'S LOG
kTE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 17Oct.- 8:30 AM, 18 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
In reply to our request, Mr. Gordon Dean has designated DD/P
Commander F. J. Pinney, Jr., to discuss with Cli representatives
the development or adaptation of atomic weapons and ra dolo iical
warfare materials
00
The Radio Free Europe representative in ;Trieste is reportedly
planning to send a locally-recruited RFE employee to Belgrade
on 25 October to explore the possibilities of interrogating
refugees and obtaining information of IWE interest. 080 is
advising FE through OPC that such an approach in Belgrade
at this time would prejudice overall CIA! interests in
Jugoslavia.
Captain L. H. Patterson, Jr., Psychological z:arfare Branch,
Department of the Army, contacted the Executive. Officer, SSU,
on 15 October to request a microfilm copy of a roster of all
Army officers assigned to OSS. He was advised that such a
list was unavailable.
OPC
A resupply and infiltration operation in support of an agent
team in the Kukes area of northern Albania was successfully
completed on the night of 15/16 October. Two men, one of
whom is a W/T operator, were dropped. Prior to this operation,
communications with this team have. been by means of, letters
with secret writing forwarded via Yugoslavia.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY #L OF 5- OCT 17 1951

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