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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…
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DIRECTOR'S LOG
'TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,13 Nov. - 8:30 AM,14 Nov.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
Training
Arrangements have been completed to cnduct. beginning
Monday, 12 November, short-term training programs for
military personnel assigned to CIA but awaiting full
clearance. Entrance dates for these groups will be
every three weeks. The training period will be 3 weeks,
or as much longer as is required for full clearance.
Training will comprise appropriate individual work
projects, attendance at lectures and discussions of
the Unclassified Training Group A, a course in Reading
Improvement, and a general reading project.
AI:Project ISOLATION (Camp Peary) Air Training Branch
personnel have inspected the site for location of air.strip
and jump ground and Maritime instructers have visited the
site to prepare requirements for Ma i1me activities.
In Project ZRCORSET (Grand Bahama island) conferences Conferences con-
were held in accordance with DD/A directive for establish- tinuing.
ment of .AEC cover, Initial AEC reaction was unfavorable.
OR
The ORR Panel of Aeronautical Consultants (consisting of
some 32 knowledgeable persons in the aircraft industry,
the air research and development field, the US air power
program, the Weapons Systems Eiraluation Group', the USAF,
the Office of Naval Intelligence, and CIA airintelligence
personnel) concluded a 4-day meeting discussing better
ways to evaluate the economic input capabilities and
vulnerabilities of the Soviet air power, The ,full pro-
ceedings were recorded, are now being studied' -and will
prove of value in focussing ORR efforts into the most
productive channels.
COi # OF 5.
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