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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
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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