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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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  • 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
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM E RITY TION6 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
Thomas Lanphier, referred to CIA by Jimipy Lay, talked with DD/P advised.
- Mr. Dulles and Col. Muller on 2.November. Lanphier, acting Col. J. C.King
as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have
Share Co. offered the use of the facilities and personnel furter dis-
of these organizations to assist CIA in any textint or con- cussions with
templated operations to combat Communism in Guatemala. Lanphier.
OPC
A CIA agent sent to Marshall Tito's recent International
Conference for Peace in Zagreb with specific instructions
to combat the expected neutralist line successfully did
so in a speech reported on 25 October in the NEW YORK TIMES
and the New York and Paris editions of the NEW YOI HERALD
TRIBUNE. In the course of the conference, the agent was
appointed to the Resolutions Committee where he played a
critical role in a small drafting group. He was also elected
to the Executive Board of seven within the Continuation
Committee.
Three men of a five-man CIA agent team 'in Albania have returned
to Greece through Yugoslavia. Radio Tirana had reported
the annihilation of 13 U.S, agents in Albania. On the basis
of that report, it was believed that the three-man team
which has just returned to Greece had been wiped out. The
agents say they were separated from the other two members
of the team during a fire-fight. Another team in Albania
also has been contacted by radio but the message they
sent was undecipherable.
A 1h0-ton Chinese supply boat enroute from Dairen to Antung
with a 13-man crew was captured 10 miles off the Manchurian.
coast on 28 October by the CIA-controlled Korean fishing.
vessel SEA 14DLF.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # L OF 5. NOV .51951

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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.