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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. 19 …A six-man CIA-controlled Albanian agent team crossed the border into Greece on 3 September…
  • p. 28 …Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved prospects of controlling Bulgarian intelligence activities in Northern…
  • p. 30 …d) On a scouting mission to Shi Cheng Tao, the CIA-controlled Korean fishing vessel SEA…
  • p. 73 …Two OSO agents have returned to Salzburg from a mission into Hungary during which they buried…
  • p. 76 …time mission to Sofia, where he will recruit a resident agent. OPC A CIA-controlled guerrilla…
  • p. 139 …Joint' American Nilitary Mission to Aid Turkey(JAAT) as cover for CIA-controlled Paramilitary operations in…
  • p. 174 …known in official US quarters, conferred "in strictest confidence" with the BGMARQUE Chief of Mission on…
  • p. 234 …This is aonersnot mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred the…
TOP SECRET' -
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,9 Nov. - 8:30 AM,10 Nov.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT 'ACTION
OSO Cont' d.
Sir Percy Sillitoe, Director General of th British Security Sir Percy's local
Service, arrives in San Francisco on 10 Nov. from New Zealand. office will query
He will return to London without visiting Washington unless FBI. ADSO has
the DCI or the Director of the FBI wishes t see him. nothing for him.
OPC
Gen. Ralph Lovett, Chief, Veterans Administration, Philippines, Col. Stilwell will
(fully cleared by CIA), has agreed to devote part time to see Mr. Carl Gray,
OPC activities and, .in particular, to act as titular head of Chief, Veterans
OPC station effective on Col. Lansdale's departure for Administration, and
Washington and pending designation new.OPC Chief. Gen. Lovett' s secure his approval
prestige will be of great assistance on policy matters with of this arrangement.
senior US and Philippine officials in the area..
CIA's. Saipan paramilitary training base han been notified by Col. Stilwell is re-
H.M. Hedges, Interior Dept's District Administrator at Saipan, questing DD/F to take
that on 5 Nov. Knight Aulsbrook, Interior' s Attorney General action.
at Guam, made the following statement: "The Far East Founda-
tion, ,Inc. is training Chinese guerrilla.warfare personnel for
future use against the Communist regime in China." Aulsbrook
interrogated Hedges thoroughly on the activities of.the Far
East Foundation, Inc., the organization which covers CIA activities
on Saipan, indicating that authorities at uanm were actively
interested in the Foundation and. intended to investigate the
matter further. Hedges is cleared and aware ofl the true nature
of the Foundation; Aulsbrook is not. The I&S Staff has recommended
that the matter be taken-up with the Interior Dept. at a high level.
On the night of 7-8 Nov., a covert CIA aircraft dropped 500,000
leaflets over Albania. The leaflets, entitledGOuihReply to
the Communist Terror" gave specific instructions to the Albanians
to avoid overt, acts but to support agents of the Nat'l Committee .
for a Free Albania. This drop was important and- timely in that it
will show the people that the CIA-supported NCFA is not abandoning ,- g- .
OP SECRET (CONTINUED - -

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