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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
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG t'
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 6 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 7 Dec. ^
)CUMENT RECEIVED PROM TO SUBJECT ' ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
An agreement has been reached with Radio- Free Europe which
will resolve past security problems by eliminating un-
controlled or competitive activities and make operational,
assistance to OSO possible in appropriate cases.
OSO/Germany has taken custody from French Intelligence of
2 officials of the Polish Legation in Cairo who defected
in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the
defectors are of no intelligence value, no commitments
were made to them and OSO assistance willbe limited to
placing them in IRO channels for resettle ent..
Fearing disciplinary action for his inability to Although Swedish Intelligence
assist anotiher Polish vessel disabled in a recent reports that he is of slight
storm at sea, the master of a Polish merchant ship intelligence value, OSO/
has :requested asylum in Sweden. Stockholm will attempt to
exploit, him through inde-
pendent O0 sources.
OPC
Headquarters is authorizing an agent to resume negotia-
tions with Polish Gen. Anders in London next, week and
offer him a limited budget for his General:Staff for
specific activities specified by CIA. In'return' for
this, Gen. Anders will be asked to work toward unifica-
tion of the Polish emigre organizations. Up to thi's-
time, Gen. Anders has opposed unification.
The circulation of a CIA-subsidized Vienna paperi
DIE PRESSE, has increased over one-third in a single
month, at a time when the circulation of other Vienna
papers dropped as a result of price increases. This
circulation boost is attributable, in part, to the. fact
that an insert carrying George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
was included with 1 edition of the paper. 4 5,000
promotional lea fet E f been distributedlin the
(CONTINUN) y i Of DEC 6 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.