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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 18 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 19 Oct.
ICUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION
DD/P (Cont'd)
would contribute to the objectives of NATO and the
security of the U. S., might provide funds for a
resettlement program for refugees.. U. S. psychological
warfare activities have suffered and may continue to do
so in the future if refugees are not, better handled.
The interest of the POCC, G-3, DP Ccmmission, and the
UNA/R Division of State were discussed and recognized.
Gen. Cutler asked his staff to prepare a memo which
could be submitted to the Board outlining the problem
and requesting approval for.the PSB to study the matter
further and determine which agency, if any, should be
given the responsibility for-this welfare rmatter.
OSO
OSO/Brussels has forwarded microfilm copi s of Belgian .
State Security agent dossiers and informant lists. The
opportunity to reproduce these records arose when State
Security placed them in OSO hands for safekeeping during
the recent official investigation of its Charleroi office.
Robert N. Carew-Hunt, Counterespionage and Communism Section,
British Secret Ser-ice, has discussed with OSO officers the
extent to which each Service has covered Soviet and Inter-
national Communism. An exchange of studies in this field
has been agreed to.
OPC
A leaflet drop of 25,000 news bulletins was made on
12 October on the city.of Tung-An, in :the Fukien Province.
At a Press Conference 14 October the T.ranian .Chief of
Police, General Mosayeni, described the ,discovery, in Isfahan,
TOP SECRET (CONTINULD) COPY # _ OF 5. OCT 1 R 1951

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.