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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
SECURITY- INFORMATION -5 py r"
DIRECTOR'S LOG .Q
830 AM,11 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 15 Nov.
4TE OF DATE-
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO . SUBJECT ACTION
-OSO
General Truscott reported that EUCOM will continue to supply
CIA elements under Army cover with Deutsche Mark support
for supplies and services chargeable to occupation costs.
No dollar support is being considered, with the exception
of the EUCOM contribution for ZIPPER. Previous HICOG
support to CIA will be. continue.d.' This situation should
prevail for at least the next six months, after,which
developments will be governed by the trms of the Allied-
German contractual agreements.-
Representatives of OSO, OPC and Finance Division discussed OPC will outline
with General Foster and DD/Admin the possible use of a, in detail its need
French bank charter now held by an 030' agent as an over-all for such a facility
CIA asset for OSO/OPC operational purposes and Finance. for study by the
Division funding activities. . Projects Review-
Committee and DD/A.
DADSO and Mr. D. M. Ladd, Assistant to the Director, FBI,
met with members of their offices in the first monthly
conference. Liaison, operational, andiadministrative
matters were discussed for a possible December agenda.
Problems unresolved at the liaison' level will be placed
on each monthly agenda; urgent problems will be cause for
special meetings. CIA will be. invited to the IIC wheri
subjects of CIA interest are involved.: Mr. Ladd was given
a copy of CIA's message to the field on,,CIA/FBI cooperation.
Legal Attaches will be briefed on relations with CIA.
Queried on an OSO/Budapest report that Army Attache Lt. Col. An effort is being
John Lanterman is shortly to be relieved, Army advised made to arrange a
that the departure of his successor is imminent. Since G-2 last minute .
briefing.
(CONTINUED) Copy # of ;.
TOP SECRET NOV 14 1951SECURITY INFORMATION

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.