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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
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,8 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 9 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
again offered to collaborate with Italiai Intelligence.' His
proposal will be rejected at 080 sugggstion.
The Chief of Norwegian Intelligence now appears to recognize
that such incidents as the close-mouthed refusal of 2 of his
officers recently sent to Washington for training to state
their specific needs can hurt relations between his Service
and CIA.
Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger, Chief of the Treasury Dept.
Bureau of Narcotics, has agreed to furnish . cover for
OSO officers assigned abroad in appropriate.cases. A
detailed plan to be worked out for his approval will require
knowledge of the arrangementsin State Dept. by 2 or 3 high-
level officials only.
OPC
The most recent evaluation of material pertaining to the
Dalai Lama indicates a rapidly decreasing possibility df
attempted flight by him before weather conditions close
the passes in January. The Dept. of aState has instructed
its representatives in India:to make a final attempt at
encouraging the Dalai Lama's depArture'onthe, grounds that
unless he succeeds in leaving immediately he may never be
able to leave.
Negotiations for the leasing of San. Jqse Island Panama.,to
serve as a site for a defector reception arid rehabilitation
center have been abandoned. Although the owner of the Island
was agreeable and cooperative there was parliamentary opposition
and it was not possible to secure the degree.if control over
the property. necessary. There are severalother possibilities
in Central America., however, and 2 CIA representatives are now
in the areat )fj them.
SECURITY INFORMATION (CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5.

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