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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
SECURITYINFORMATIOIi
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 20 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 21 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Continued)
acting as personal representative of the DOI, the
operation of his eight-man counterespionage net,
which investigates Soviet and Soviet Satellite
agents in Holland. The Prince declares that his
men know "eight times more than the Ihitch Security
Service" about foreign enemy agents but; lacking
confidence in the Service, do not normally pass
information to it. Despite the Prince's confidence in
his group, he will accept CIA evaluation of its product
as a guide to future requests for aid.
The British Secret Service, with the concurrence of
the Foreign Office and the British High Commissioner
in Germany, has agreed with CIA to informing the
French Secret Service that Chancellor Adenauer and
Social Democratic leader Schumacher appear to
accept ZIPPER as the future German Intelligence
Service and to introducing the French to the Chief
of ZIPPER on the same basis on which he met the
British.
- De Bardeleben, Chief of OSO/London, returned on
20 November for a month's home leave.
OPC
In their most recent conference with a cutout in
Teheran, CIA's two principal agents, in Iran claim to
have been responsible for the postponement of elections
until a more advantageous date, 18 December, the .5th
anniversary of the liberation of Azerbaijan. They
also claim to have squelched Tudeh plans to take over
a garment factory and a shoe factory, to have
TOP SECRET - - COPY # / OF 5. NOV 20 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.