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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
DIRECTOR'S LOG~
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,17 Nov. - 8:50 AM,18 Nov. -
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO' SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
18.persons have been arrested to date in the current anti-
Communist campaign in Greece and 20 more are detained in
their homes. In addition, 2 elaborately concealed W/T
installations have been raided, in one o-f.which messages
and cipher materials were found, although the 'operator
destroyed some documents before committing suicide. The
loss of these facilities and personnel area serious blow
to the Greek Communist Party.- .
In discussions with Maj. Gen. Robert Taylor: senior US Gen. Taylor agreed
officer in the Northern Command of SHAPE, Mr. Gerald Miller to discuss the matter
and Mr. Richard Helms brought up the matter of complaints by with Adm. Brind's
Scandinavian intelligence services at being pressed by SHAPE intelligence officer
for intelligence reports duplicating information already in an effort to ar-
furnished to 00. - range for orderly
distribution of in-
telligence to the .ap-
propriate Allied
elements and to reduce
pressure on the
Scandinavian services.
Ambassador to Yugoslavia George Allen is to present Mr.
Andrew F. Kristovich, Chief of .OSO/Belgrade, to Minister of
Interior Rankovic on 17 Nov. in an effort to establish CIA
liaison with Yugoslav Intelligence.
British representatives in Finland report that the Finnish OSO is attempting
Diet has decided to return to Soviet custody all 3 Estonians to ascertain the
who recently escaped into Finland, allegedly ,from Soviet true situation.
concentration camps. Although 1 of the 3 is believed to be
a provocateur, Swedish Intelligence had offered to arrange
for the release of the others to OSO.
TOP SECRET .(CONTINUED) . N 7
Of-- NOV 17 1951

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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.