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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…
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DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 31 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 1 Nov.
ITE OF DATE ACTION
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT
OSO
A Moscow. broadcast on 26 October mentioned an "electrical
torture machine handled by Americann:Robert Driscoll, an
employee of the American Embassy in Athens." This pro-
paganda, published in a Pravda article on the "Bloody
Crimes of The Greek Monarcho-Fascists", obviously refers
to the use of the polygraph in connection,with the interrogation
of certain Greek Communist personalities in the presence of
Mr. Driscoll who until recently was in charge of the OSO anti-
Communist project in Greece but is now stationed in Headquarters.
On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache,
Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly intercepted by a
group which has penetrated a &amp;ssian net'operating against
HICOG in Germany. The -00 representative in Madrid will.
continue efforts to obtain copies of these reports from
SKORZENY.
The official British visit to ZIPPER at Pullach will take place
on 6.and 7 November. British officers attending will include
Gen. Kirkman, Chief of Intelligence for the British High
Commissioner, and Mr. Simon Gallienne, Head of the MI-6 Station
in Germany.
Radio Tirana reported on 25 Oct. the elimination of 7 additional
spies who.had been parachuted into Albania. It identified the
men as British Intelligence agents.
To improve the security of CIA-directed operations against
Albania, the Executive Committee and the Military Junta of
the National Committee for a Free Albania and the Albanian
Guard Company in Germany will be excluded.from 1952 activities.
As an additional precaution, agent training will be moved from
the present training site in Germany. 1
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