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SECURITY INFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG Yv CI
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,19 Dec. - 8:30 AM,
2 0 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
The 2 agents reported by Radio Moscow to have, been :apprehended
and executed in the Soviet Union are undoubtedly identical
with 2 OSO agents dispatched by air into the southwestern
Ukraine on 14 August. The facts so far reported by the
Soviet radio are accurate.
- After discussion wi.th DD/P, the British Segret Service
representative in Washington has agreed to "regomiend
that the British withdraw their request. for participation
in the CIA-Spanish Intelligence project to locate .and
control a secret Soviet Intelligence transiatter. operating
- in Spain. He will recommend further that information
produced by a related Soviet double-agentdcase in Spain
be passed to CIA in return for the product of the US-
Spanish project.
The Chief of Italian Intelligence reported to OBO/nome,
on'the return of a group of Italian Intelligence officers
from a staybehind training course in London, that the
training was strictly limited to general orientation
and instruction, without specific application to the
Italian situation. He added that the.British would
probably now propose a more concrete form of operational
. collaboration in staybehind matters, remarking that there
has been indication of British desire to .jdiiwith. CIA
in .a tripartite approach to a staybehind program.
Briefed by the Chief, OSO/Canal Zone, Maj. Gen. L. J.
Whitlock, commanding USARCARIB, extended his best wishes
to thd DCI together with assurance of full support to -
CIA activities in the Panamawea
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