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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.
“Cairo”8 pages
TOP SECRET . DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 22 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 23 Oct. - CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION During the course of the joint U.S.-Dutch and U.S.-French dispatch missions successfully executed on 18-19 October, the dispatching aircraft encountered anti-aircraft- fire and observed a fighter plane near Pleven in northern Bulgaria but returned to base undamaged. Lack of a suitable aircraft has forced the British Secret Service to cancel dispatch of a fifth W/T team of Bandera Ukrainian partisans into the western Ukraine. Only one of three teams dispatched in May 1951 was able to establish W/T contact. A. fourth team proceeding overland has reported satisfactory progress by mail. Two.OSO agents returned to Greece from a subcessful 19-day mission in Bulgaria along the Yugoslav border. The newly-designated Chief, OSO/Belgrade, arrived in Belgrade on 17 October. OPC Two BGMARISJE guerrilla warfare teams were dropped on the night of 17 October: one team on central coastal Chekiang Province (121-02, 28-51), and the other team on central eastern Chekiang Province (120-31, 28-51). A report from the first team indicated that one chute failed to open. The-name of the individual is. not available at this time. No contact has been made with the second team since the drop. Plans have been made to. recruit members from the League of Freedom Loving Lawyers, an OPC-sponsored organization, for paramilitary operations in East Germany. The operations will be supervised and directed by indigenous leaders who will be (CONTINUED) COPY A' OF 5. OCT 22 1951TOP SECRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.