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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 oh
8:30 AM,8 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 9 Nov.
I'EOF DATE
JUMENTRECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
The Swiss have arrested an agent who ddits ito having
operated against Swiss laboratories and itidustries in the
employ of Commander John McMullen, forer Asst. U.S. Naval
Attache in Bern, who studied at the Federal. Technical
Institute in Zurich.. Swiss Military Intelligence reports
that the agent will probably not be prosecuted, since
McMullen is no longer in Switzerland. McMullen' s activities
are considered reprehensible, however, and Swiss laboratories
are being warned against U.S. students.
- 7 Italian Intelligence officers, keysmen in the Italian stay-
behind program, will receive short individual orientation
courses in the United Kingdom this month.: Although the
British have requested absolute secreo on tihis instruction,
OSO has been informed in confidence by repponsible officials-
of the Combined Italian Intelligene Service. Limited
Training Division facilities make it'presently impossible
for OSO to offer similar assistance -to the Italians.
Stressing the extreme delicacy of the matter, the Chief of>
Dutch Foreign Intelligence has requested CIA assistance in
removing from Vienna to Holland a quantity of Dutch stocks
and. bonds lost or stolen during the war and worth many millions
of guilders. The problem is being examined.
Conversations with M. Robert Hirsch of the French Surete Nationale
concluded yesterday with agreement on exchange of reports on
illegal Communist activities with CIA. Hirsch reported that he
refuses to pay an alleged deviationist group of French Communists
for information. He advised also that intelligence coverage of
France under a Soviet occupation .is being studied with the French
Secret Service.
Gen. Endre Zako, Hungarian leader in exile and key f igure:n the
fabrication of intelligence information on Central Europe, has
TOP SECRET
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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.