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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. 108 …Rimanian King Michael has issued a hurried summons for Visoianu, President of the Rumanian National Committee…
  • p. 109 …Because of this, it is suspected that the British and King Michael may have made some…
  • p. 127 …C.King as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have Share Co. offered…
  • p. 141 …the US Merchant Marine Acad'ery at Kings Point, New York. He was well received and…
  • p. 155 …to the Panama Station requesting J. C. King, who arrives there on 21 Nov. to malke…
  • p. 178 …in .an accurate fore- cast of a probable coup d'etat prior to the King's…
  • p. 184 …time, Hassan will submit the program to King Farouk for approval. Stressed immediately will .be assistance…
  • p. 192 …Roosevelt have The intelligence requested that intelligence material of interest material and equipment to'King Faroul…
  • p. 196 …The King has written a letter ~to the Prime Minister agreeing in principle to the constitutiorial…
-® 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.