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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
SECURITY INFORMATION Noted DCI
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 7 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 8 Nov. -
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM -TO . SUBJECT - ACTION
OSO
Col. Louis Einthoven, Chief of the Dutcji Internal Security
Service, expressed regret through the" British Secret Service
representative in Brussels that there was no. tripartite
British-Dutch-U.S. coordination of action against the
recently-defected Czech Commercial Attache in-The Hague
and the Czech Military Attache in Brussels. This appears
to initiate a British-Dutch effort to persuade CIA to
conduct joint operations in Holland.
Brigadier General Henry A. Barber, Jr., Senior CIA
Representative in Spain, is scheduled to depart from
New York 10 November 1951 on the SS Constitution. He
will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951.
Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in London,
will return to Headquarters. on 12 November 1951.
OPC.-
L.K. Taylor, former partner of Whiting Willauer in the
predecessor company of CAT, is bringing suit in Taiwan against
Corcoran et al alleging that Taylor, as a shareholder of the
former company, was not paid his share.of .the proceeds realized
in'the sale to the undisclosed purchaser (U.S.Government).
Despite strong representations by Mr. Willauer,- Minister Carl
Bankin and others that the matter be settled out of court,
Taylor remains adamant in his contentionthat he has been.
defrauded by his former -associates and is proceeding to sue.
No disclosure has been made, to CIA's knowledge; of the U.S.
Government's interest in CAT although Minister Ranidn in. his.
discussion-with Taylor emphasized that CAT was performing vital
services for the. U.S. Government which would be prejudiced if
Taylor sued. Col. Stilwell is seeing Corcoran. to secure his
agreement to settle the case out of court'.
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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.