Documents / FOIA release

/specialCollection/DCI/Smith FOIA/1951/1951-July to September/1951-09-01.pdf

Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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 SEClET
- ~ SECURITY INFORMATION W
/ DIRECTOR'S LOG -
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,8 Dec. - 8:30 AM,9 Dec.
ICUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
Training
A representative of the Office of. Traihinjlmet with
Professor Bellinger of Yale University to make final
arrangements with him for accepting the position of
establishing college contacts in .50 or more ;American
colleges and universities primarily for the'purpose
of recruiting high-level basic traineesi
Initial steps have been taken to plan for the second
CIA participation in a summer seminar .n ,the Near East
Four field grade officers from the Dept. of State -2
USAF and 1 each from Army and Navy - have requested
permission to attend the next !D-day CIA Orientation
Course. I&SO has concurred in admitting these officers
to the course provided they can be security cleared.
Project ZRCORSET - On.5 Dec. representatives of.JSPD
and USAF met with Lt. Col. Wilde (OPC) and 'a representa-
tive of the Office of Training. The conference was called
to clarify and explain the formal requisatfor c:over.
Informal conclusion reached was: -
The USAF conferees stated that in their personal. opinion
the military services would; support ZRCORSET as to its
cover and as to its logistic support proaided that:
1. Official written assurance from CIA be given JSPD
that a firm agreement had been reached with the
British Government permitting the proposed
activities at ZRCORSET.
2. The requested logistical support be both factual
and "reasonable".
The Office of Training was informed by OpsO/OPC on 5 Dec.
that a representative of OPC had been directed to open
the entire matter of negotiations with the British Govern- DEC 1
ment; that he is now in London; and that an .iminent report of
progress is TOP SECRET -
-expected. (CONTINUED. C0p I7

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

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.