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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
TF DATE 8:30 AM, 1 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 2 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION
OSO (Contfd)
has reported the above situation to Washington in detail and
has requested that Headquarters undertake a review of our
Hong Kong liaison arrangemdnts with the British in order to
protedt our intelligence assets. Such a review is in progress
and recommendations will be made for the handling of this
situation.
OPC
A mob of 300 East German laborers is reported to have stormed
a jail in Saxony and freed two fellow workers. The move was
without obvious political overtones but oneof the workers freed
and the chief of the jail, who ordered the release ostensibly
to prevent bloodshed, are both secret members of the CIA-
sponsored League of Freedom-Loving Lawyers.
MISCELLANEOUS
Alexandra and Ilia Tolstoy and Boris Sergievsky have requested
appointment with Secly of Defense to discuss anew developments
in Russian situation". Secly Lovett has asked CIA for back-
ground of this delegation and advice as to whether or not he
should receive them. DD/P
TOP SECRET COPY # / 9F S NOV 1 1951

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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.