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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
8:30 AM, 19 Nov* 8:30 AM, 20 Nov.
TE OF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
Twenty persons were arrested and a loud speaker
system set up announcing imprisonment or 6eath.
to anyone caught reading the bogus notices.
A radio contact team was successfully dropped
by a Chinese Nationalist Air Force plane on
13 Nov. in a CIA-directed operation to a
Nationalist guerrilla force located 400 miles
due West of Shanghai in Hupeh Province. The
force is operating in the border areas of
Hupeh, Honan and Anhwei Provinces.
A 167-man CIa-supported Nationalist guerrilla
force under Col. Wang Chu conducted a succssIu
raid on 13 Nov. on Feh Tou-tung, about j0 miles'-
northwest of Ta Chien in Chekiang Province.
An additional 30,000 leaflets were droppedl by
Nationalist planes over Fukien Province in a
CIA-directed operation on 7 November.
Efforts to arrange for the entry of Walter Nyi
into the Philippines have been successful.
He arrived in Manila from Taipei oh 13 Nov.
with a 6-month visa dnd an authorization from
Chiang Kai-shek to act as an advisor to the
Chinese Ambassador. The. field has been instructed
to keep Nyi under observation in Manila to detendine
if he. can be of further use to CIA despite his
serious breaches of security. A decision as to
his ultimate disposal will be based upon field
observation
(CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. NOV 19 1951
TOP SECRET

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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.