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DIRECTOR'S LOG
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CUMENT RECEIVED FROM To SUBJECT ACTION
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Immediate deployment of the 560th Air Resupply and Since the above was
Communications Wing as scheduled to Wheelus Field in ascertained unofficially
Libya, where it was to have been used in support of an intensive effort is
V CIA operations, has been deferred, if not cancelled being made to determine
outright, apparently as a result of action taken on officially the facts of
19 Nov. by the Secy of State on a strong British the matter
protest against the movement to Libya-at this time.
Serious Interference with CIA plans will result.
Quoting a reliable Chinese, the Department of State
has reported that Robert W. McCann, a US businessman
arrested in Tientsin by Chinese Communist authorities,
is undergoing severe and intensive int rogation aimed
at. establishing his involvement in espionagerin addition
to their clear case against him on a charge of ;unauthorized
export of capital. McCann, a covert 00, agent who was in-
volved in certain Tientsin operations, is resisting interro-
gation, but the informant believes he may crack under the
pressure. He knows the identities of three CIA officers.
A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been
headquarters in -Verdun has reported his recruitment by an authorized to accept
attache of the Hungarian Legation in Paris to secure US the French Security
military documents for delivery to a clandestine courier. proposal to exploit
the case jointly with
the participation of
U.S. CIC.
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NOV 21 1951