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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 INURN4ATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG .
\TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 7 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 8 Nov.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
The cover of a CIA representative sent to assist in the covert
exploitation of the UN session in Paris has been jeopardized
by an administrative telegram from the U.S. Embassy there to
theState. Dept. which was inadvertently transmitted in the clear
and given wide distribution in the Embassy. The State Dept.
is now considering a CIA proposal to allow its representative
to remain, provided his. contacts with ;aassy officials are
made through cutouts.
The Wiesbaden conference between representatives of the Great
Russian Emigre groups .and of 6 national minority, groups adjourned
6,Nov. The various groups represented; agreed oh a protocol, but
copld not agree on a name for the organisation, as a result of
which the protocol was not signed. .A press, release is being
issued in Frankfurt stating that the groups have met and agreed
to come together against the common enemy. Another meeting has
been planned for 14 Dec.
The OPC-supported League of Freedom Loving Lawyers received
i.nformation of 90 specific illegal German East-West trade
transactions during the month of Sept. Working with the
intersonal customs service, this organization assisted in
preventing delivery of strategic materials and machines in
a number of cases. The League recently instituted an economic
section which compiles relevant facts and figures on the East
Zone econony.
ISCELLANEUS -
Gordon Gray has furnished. DCI and D/DC1 with copies of a paper,
prepared by PSB Staff on "Psychological Strategy in the Ensuing
Years." Mr. Gray sent the paper to Mr. Lay for .NSC Staff con-
sideration in connection with its reappraisal of_ "US Programs
for National Security " (NSC 114/2) incling revision of Part I,
"Probable Developments in the World Situation." Mr. Lay has
-. TOP SECRET referred the paper to the Sr. NSC Staff.

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