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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.

  • p. 3 …CIA controlled fishing vessels based at Hoe-do Island, off the Korean coast, recently sank a…
  • p. 18 …They will be escorted on a trip to the West Coast, returning to Washington on 23…
  • p. 56 …CIA-controlled guerrillas on the west coast of Korea have rescued 2 more downed FEAF pilots…
  • p. 110 …The area raided was the southern coast of Fukien Province, approximately 23 miles southeast of Chin…
  • p. 120 …The group of young Indonesians picked up off the northen coast of Celebes Island by a…
  • p. 127 …to Antung with a 13-man crew was captured 10 miles off the Manchurian. coast on…
  • p. 135 …of personnel to expand the current screening program of seamen and longshoremen; additional Coast Guard patrol…
  • p. 163 …North Korean coast by a CIA-controlled. fishing boat has been turned over to the 5th…
  • p. 169 …threat to the. security of the Saipan base. A diversionary raid on the coast of Chgkiang…
  • p. 206 …60 The East and West Coast Bureaus of FBIS have been alerted to file. to Washington…
  • p. 217 …Cho Do and Soc Do, on the west coast of Korea above All CIA personnel are…
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.