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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG otd n c9C
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 25 Oct. - 8:30 A 26 Oct.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
An AP dispatch of 23 October reports .the conviction of
14 persons previously accused of spying in Albania for
the U.S. and other nations. Four.of these men were
members of teams dropped into 'Albania by the U.S.
On 16 October a diversionary raid was conducted by
Chinese Nationalist guerrillas from Chin Men.Island.. The
area raided was the southern coast of Fukien Province,
approximately 23 miles southeast of Chin Men... The entire
guerrilla force returned to the island after sinking
three Chinese Communist sailboats, capturing two motor
ships, and taking many prisoners.
OSO
The female Greek agent conducting the purported penetration
of 'the Greek Communist Party in Athens has confessed under
interrogation to having herself fabricated the entire
case, including all notes, contacts, and the repor.t that
the Deputy ECA Administrator in Greece was to be assassinated.
Interrogation is continuing to determine whether the operation
may not in fact have been Communist-inspired and to explore
possible future use of the agent along other lines.
Senior officers of the Guaranty Trust Company in New York
will reply to the Polisy U.N. delegate's demand for information
about the, bank account established for Juliusz Katz-Suchy
in an attempt to induce his defection that there client
has been informed of the complaint and that the bank
considers' the matter closed. Guaranty Trust is most
cooperative, will divulge nothing further' and ddes not
appear concerned by possible Polisi action. A detailed
report will be 'submitted to the Deputy Director'
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