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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 [NT" i c ,
DIRECTOR'S LOG
E OF DATE 8:30 AM, h Sept.- 8:30 AM,5 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
The Chief of Spanish counterespionage has expressed a
desire for more regular meetings with the Chief of
Station, Madrid, and the Legal Attache, showing marked
interest in exchange of information on Tangier. Chief
of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should
await the arrival of the official CIA liaison officer
in November.
The Senior Representative, Paris, urges that CIA invite
the Chief of the French Surete Nationale to visit Washington
this fall.
Mr. Charles F. Baldwin, Economic Counsellor of the US
Embassy in London, arrives in Washington on 15 September
for reassignment to Singapore, where he believes he will
be appointed Minister. He would like to receive briefing
on CIA activities in the Far East. OSO, London, reports
that Mr. Baldwin has been a good friend to CIA in London
and in view of his possible future usefulness, recommends
that he be given considerable attention in Washington.
00
Over the holiday weekend, FBID began filing Significant
Foreign Radio Comments on Japanese Peace Treaty to the
American delegation at the San Francisco Conference. Army
Communications Service agreed to handle this traffic from
Washington to the Presidio and then on to the American
delegation by messenger. The material is filed to the
attention of Mr. W. Bradley Connors. Beginning 5 Sept.
a round-up will be prepared and sent in time to be in the
hands of the American delegation at the beginning of each
day's conference.
(CONTINUED) COPY # OF 5.
TOP SECRET SEP ! 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.