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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
NY IFDRMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,3D Nov - 8:30 AM, 1 Dec -
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - - ACTION
'9 Nov 30 Nov W. Park Armstrong DCI Mr. Armstrong notes in carrying out Staters program
under the provisions of NSC,29 (Security of Strategically
Important Industrial Operations. irn Foreign Countries)
State intends to request from CIA 'assistance in the conduct'
of physical security surveys and in the development of #lans
for the improvement of security. In addition, State may
request the initiation of intelligence surveillance or the
institution of covert counter-sabotage measures specifically
in relation to the expanded NSC 29 program. DD/P
6BNov 30 Nov Gen. Bolling DCI A background sketch on Capt. Kenneth S. Giniger has been
received from Gen. Bolling. DD/A
The Acting Sec'y of Defensebas sent our letter con- DD/P
cerning Fort Randolph to the Sec'y of the -Anyre-
questing that he assist the DCI to acquire this
property if it is found that (a) it may appropriately
be made available; (b) project is 'approved by State;
(c) it might logistically be supported by the
Caribbean command with costs to be reimbursed by CIA.
TOP SECRET 30 NOVEMBER 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.