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SECURITYINFORMATION - -
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,3 Dec. - 8:30 AM,i< Dec. 7
TEMOF DATE - CTO
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
An agent of OSO/Buenos Aires suspected of having Soviet Both OSO stations are
Intelligence connections has reported to OSO/Montevideo investigating further
that Argentine police arrested and interrogated him under and will furnish further
torture in an effort to extort a confession which. would reports.
have named the OSO Station Chief in Buenos Aires as an
organizer of the unsuccessful Argentine coup d'etat of
28 September.
The possibility of giving increased intelligence support It was suggested that
to the Office of International Trade, Dept. of Commerce, Commerce might request
has been discussed at a meeting called by ORR'. Since CIA to furnish appro-
Commerce is not a member of the IAC and therefore receives priate information in
no regular CIA dissemination, present support is confined the, form of finished
to selected raw reports passed to the OIT Enforcement intelligence, after
Branch, which has special clearance - s; y clearance of each item
with the'CIA office
concerned.
Training
On 26 Nov, the Office of Training inaugurated the new
Indoctrination Course that will now be given weekly for
new employees in conjunction with the weekly Agency
Security Briefings. Approximately 120 persons attended
this first week's indoctrination. The indoctrination
introduces the new employee to the basic ideas and language
of intelligence in general, and to the Scope,,Mission and.
Internal Organization of CIA in particular, It costs the
new enployee one-half workday.
Project AEROFOIL - Project conducted for FDS/OSO involving
the training of 4 deep cover agents from Iron Curtain
countries i: continuing and will in all probabiliy extend
through January 1952. (CONTINUED)
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