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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.

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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 under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.