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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.
TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,19 Oct. - 8:30 AM,.20 Oct. ICUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO, SUBJECT ACTION OSO - M. Robert Hirsch, Director of the French Surete Nationale, informed CIA Fepresentatives in Paris that Mr. J. Edgar Hoover has directed the FBI representative in Paris to establish contact with the Surete Nati'onle for the purpose of exchanging information, including counter- espionage data. the Dutch Security Service has brought OSO/The Hague into-a penetration of the Polish'Legation through one of its female employees, who is engaged to a U.S. Embassy Marine guard. OSO is arranging to have the Marine's assignment extended and will share the information. produced by the operation. OPC Jean Paul David, Head of the French anti-Communist Paix et Liberte, has reassessed the "Stalin Painting" afti iation of a full-size copy.and has withdramn his initial enthusiastic recommendation for its use. He now believes the painting would be effective only with the intellectual classes. David is. willing to proceed with the.poster plan, of so instructed, but suggests that the use of the painting on postcards might. be more effective. The Field recommends adoption of this alternative with abandonment of the poster plan in France, except possibly in connection with the coming UN meeting in Paris.. This proposal is being considered by Headquarters. On 15 October, 2 guerrilla teams were dropped successfuy on Hainan Island. (CONTINUED) TOP SECRET -COPY# O 5" OCTf 1 x1551
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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.