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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
SECURITI NFRRMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 13 Nov. 8:30 AM, 14 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED. FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
The JCS gave full approval of 9 November for use of the.
Joint' American Nilitary Mission to Aid Turkey(JAAT) as
cover for CIA-controlled Paramilitary operations in Turkey
and Turkish.based CIA-controlled operations into the
Balkans and the USSR.
A third contact was made with the CIA-controlled agent team
in Northern Albania on 8 November. The team reported the
loss of one man who was captured by the enermy and requested
additional supplies to replace those lost in the resupply
drop of 15 October.
The Commanding Officer of OPC's facil ty at Camp Chinen,. Headquarters has
Okinawa, has requested authority to terminate the contracts granted the authority
of 2 employees, Kirby Atterbury,' Jr. and Fenton Kilkenny. requested and in-
Atterbury, OPC supply officer, at nearbyadena irport, has structed the field to
shown complete reluctance to 'cooperate with his superiors furnish details of
and has possibly mishandled government funds. Kilkenny, the possible mis-
an, admistrative assistant, has not performed his duties handling of funds.
satisfactorily and was last reported AWOL. Atterbury & Kilkenny
will be returned to US
held for debriefing &
investigation and then
discharged.
Carrier Task Force 77 carried out an air strike on a labor
party office, .security office, and troop barracks in Kapsan,
North Korea, on 29 Oct. on the basis of intelligence furnished
by CIA-controlled guerrillas in the area. The guerrillas
reported on 30 Oct. that 520 of the enemy were, killed in' the
- raid, including 40 officials of the labor party, 31 officials
of. the local gun committee, 76 anti-guerrilla trainees, 300
North Korean soldiers, and llciviliana. Aerial photographs
confirmed complete destruction of the three targets.
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