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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
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, ov*- 8:30 AM,7 Nov. - - - -
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT. - ACTION
OSO
OSO representatives briefed Brigadier General Harmony, Chief .
of the U.S. Military Mission to Yugoslavia, on the 030
mission and interest in Yugoslavia, including the current
effort toestabli'sh liaison with the UDB. General Harmony
agreed that such liaison.can best be brought about by
confining it to the CIA channel and advised that he intends,
in the interest of his own mission, to avoid any connection
with clandestine intelligence and to attach no intelligence
officers to his staff.
A section headed by Colonel Tufts has been set up under the
Plans and Operations Staff of SHAPE to administer SHAPE
affairs which involve the Clandestine Committee "of the U.S.,
British, and French Intelligence Service's. The section
operates under the direct command of 1U.S. General Bowen,
Deputy to French General Bodet.
Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry, Director of Communications
for the British Secret Service and the Foreign Office,
is now in Washington. and will call on CIA officials.
*00
Two young Hungarian Air Force sergeants who flew a training
plane into Western Germany last February have reached the
United States from the Defector Reception Center (Germany).
They will be held here temporarily en route to .Honduras,
where Contact Division has arranged for them to worlk for
the subsidiary of an American company.
OPC
A meeting has been in progress since 2 November-between
representatives of the Great Russian Emigre grog1ps and
TOP SECRET ONTINUED) COPY # OF 5. NOV 6 1951
SECURITYIhI JhMATifl

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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.