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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
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 26 Nov.- 8:30 AM, 27 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT -ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
be represented. Attendance, including members of the press,
is expected to approach 150. Sherman'Ewing, Chairman of the
newly organized World Veterans Fund, Inc. and a CIA agent
in the Federation, will be among thosepresent.
CIA is preparing a covert counter-attack to the recent
diatribe by' Vishinsky against the Mutual Security Act.
The Intelligence Research Division of the British Foreigh
Office, has offered its channels for use in the campaign.
A Chinese barber at CIA's Saipan paramilitary training The field is being
base has been reported a suspected Nationalist agent. queried as to the
His family in Hong Kong is concerned about his where- action being taken
abouts and has demanded a letter from him. If .this is and instructed to keep
not forthcoming, the family threatens legal action headquarters informed.
throngh the Hong Kong police to ascertai nhis whereabouts
or otherwise investigate with a resultant threat to the.
security of the Saipan base.
A diversionary raid on the coast of Chgkiang Province
carried out by CIA-directed Nationalis guerrillas on
13 November resulted in 30 Communists killed, 10 woluided
and 3 captured. No casualties were suffered by the
guerrillas.
A contact team was successfully dropped to a guerrilla
force in east central Fukien Province by, a.Chinese
Nationalist Air Force plane in a CIA-directed operation
on 15 November. . Twenty-eight thousand leaflets were
dropped over Fukien in a CIA-directed operation on 15-16
November.
(CONTINUED)
- TOP SECRET COPY# .OF 6. *,dY 5i

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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.