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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 -1
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
T:30 AM, 15 Nov. 8:30 AM, 16 Nov.
,TE OF DATE -
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Cont'd)
On departing from Canadafor Londa Colonel John Munn,
Director of. Training for the British Secret Service,
expressed pleasure in the results of his recent
discussions with CIA in Washington.
00
The tW Hungarian Air Force sergeants: who arrived in
the United States from the Defector Reception Center
(Germany) last week, have been escorted-to Mobile,
whence they left on a United Fruit ship for per-
manent. resettlement in Honduras on 13 November.
They appeared to be in excellent spirits, and were
looking forward enthusiastically to their employment
with the United Fruit Company subsidiary.
.PC
A party of 40 Bulgarians which tried to cross the The Company is CIA's source
Franco-German border illegally last week to enlist. for Bulgarian agent per-
in the Bulgarian Guard Company was captured and sonnel'. The field is being
returned to France. instructed not to refuse
qualified applicants who may
successfully cross the fron-
tier illegally in the future
provided EUCOM has no
objection.
14 November '51 Father Walsh To: DCI Father Walsh states that he has been ill and therefore-
has not, had an opportunity to further consider lending
Colonel Dostert to CIA. He notes he will give us a'
decision in the near future. - Colonel Baird
TOP SECRET COPY # OF 5 'NOV 15 1951
SECURITYINFORMATION -

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