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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
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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