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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
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 11 Sept. 8:30 AM 12 Sept.
(TE OF DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Con!t)
made with the UHVR-UPA (Ukrainian Resistance Movement),
although no messages were exchanged. This is the first
contact with the Ukrainian partisan operator since 7 August.
A six-man CIA-controlled Albanian agent team crossed the
border into Greece on 3 September. During its three-week
stay inside the country, the team was involved in a battle
with Albanian security forces in the region between Gramah
and Voshkopoje and killed two of the enemy without loss
to itself. Matiani, the team leader, brought out valuable
Albanian Communist documentation which was removed from
the bodies..
The team disobeyed instructions by operating in an area
allotted to the British by previous agreement and bs
becoming involved with the enemy before becoming properly
established. In addition, for reasons as yet unknown to
Washington, it failed to display peoper recognition fires
for an attempted resupply drop.
The operations staff of the British VAIUABLE mission is
reportedly concerned. The resulting alert of Albanian
security forces may have disrupted the effective .operation
of a British-controlled team in the same area. :The OPC
Albanian field chief has recommended disbanding the CIA-
controlled team but has requested that its two top men
be retained for future hit-and-run operations. He is
being instructed to retain their services for special
missions and to use his initiative in planning such missions.
It was reported on 8 September that the September schedule
for infiltrations into Albania had been postponed one month
due to the lack of trained W/T operators. A subsequent .
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. SEP 1 1 95

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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.