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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
TOP.SECRET
SkCUITY -INFORMAT101i
DiRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM,
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Continued) -
Gen. Bolling, after thorough consideration of all Since Gen. Bolling has
relevant factors, has-declined to authorize the now twice disapproved
Army Attache in Budapest to assist OSO/Budapest in this request and in view
caching two Li/T sets. of the impending relief.
of the Army Attache, no
further action is advisable
Preliminary interrogation of the Greek Communists
arrested in Athens confirms that the recent action
is a serious blow to the illegal mechanism of the
entire Greek Communist Party. Its full extent will
appear after further interrogation and analysis of
messages exchanged over a long period with Communist
leaders abroad.
A Los Angeles firm has agreed to furnish deep cover
for an OSO agent who will operate in Finland.
OPC
A MIG-15 wing tank picked up off the North Korean coast
by a CIA-controlled. fishing boat has been turned over to
the 5th Air Force. The wing tank will enable the Air
Force for the first time to compute the'maximuin range of
a MIG-15. The 5th Air Force has expressed great apprecia-
tion and given CIA full credit for procuring it.
Swiss authorities have granted a permit for the establish-
ment in Zurich of a commercial counselling service which will
serve as a deep cover organization for OPC economic, warfare
projects in Switzerland. This is the first concrete advance
in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland.
(CONTINUED)
TOP SECRET - - .NOV 2
0337 i s , NOV 1 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.