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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.
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-® TOP SECRET SECURITYINFORMATION DIRECTOR'S LOG E OF DATE 8:30 AM, 19 Nov.- 8:30 AM, 20 Nov. CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION DD/P Gen. Bolling just returned from an Attache Conference in Panama where he learned of the possible use of Zorra Island in Lake Gatun as a Defector Rehabilitation Center and was briefed.by Hunt and Janney today. Gen. Morris, CINC CARIB, has expressed some reservations about the use of this site and his ability to provide adequate logistical 'support. Gen. Bolling suggested that Gen. Morris. be more fully briefed on the project and that the matter be brought to the attention of the JCS. Three Hq. personnel, including an engineer, are "presently in Panama studying the adequacycf Zorra Island and a cable has been sent to the Panama Station requesting J. C. King, who arrives there on 21 Nov. to malke certain that all authorities understand the project and are satisfied with this site. Gen. Magruder is also being informed. Gen. Bolling stated he has received excellent reports on CIA personnel in Latin America and- himself expressed a high regard for Tharp in Panama. OPC What is believed to be the first psychological The impact of the operation is warfare operation conducted in Indo-China was being checked by other sources. carried out by CIA-controlled agents between The results will be made known 27 October and 10 November. Over 6,000-rough as soon as available. facsimiles of enemy notices, manufactured coml- pletely of Vietminh materials, were distributed in two villages just outside of the Nietminh "military capital" Thai Nguyen. Distribution is reported to have caused immediate enemy reaction. TOP SECRET copy_ /..' f. . . NOv19 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.