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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,26 Nov. - 8:30 AM, 27 Nov.
~TEOF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO 'Cont'd.
Alarmed by Polish Embassy inquiries, French Intelligence OSO/Paris has been
has asked OSO/Paris to transport to the US Zone/Germsy instructed to urge
the former Polish Commercial Attache in Cairo and his the French to dispose
wife, both now defected, whom they have been debriefing of the Poles in the
with negative results. OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany.
-Poles in October with similar negative results but paid
them and provided a live letterdrop ir. Paris, in case
Headquarters desired further contact. Upon being con-
tacted, 'OSO/Paris turned the defectors over to the
French.
US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air
trary to Air Force instructions in permitting his as- Force in Washington to
sistant to continue contact with Otto Skorzeny, authorize the Air At-
tache to permit con-
tnued contact.
Air Commodore James A. Easton, Aest. Ciei.of.the British
Secret Service, will arrive in Washington from Tokyo on
16 Dec. and depart for London on 18 Dec. He has no
official business to discuss with CIA but hopes to pay
courtesy calls on D/DCI and DD/P on 17 December.
Dr. Danios Morali, psychologist and Chief Assessment
Officer of French Intelligence, who has been conferring
with CIA assessment and security officers, is now visiting
universities in New York and Chicago. He will be in
Washington about 5 December for a final visit before
returning to Paris.
OPC
The annual convention of the CIA-supported International
Federation of World Veterans' Organizations is scheduled
to open in Belgrade on 27 Nov. Eightee countries will
TOP SECRET (CMImNUED), .COPY # L OF 6.

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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.