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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…
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. OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first
by an agent of Italian Intelligence, of a Hungarian atomic priority to clari-
scientist who allegedly worked for several years in atomic fication of the cir-
energy installations in the USSR and Hungary before es- cumstances and
caping to Switzerland. Although the Italian Intelligence assessment of the
agent, himself a Hungarian refugee, insists that the source.
scientist will not agree to contact with US officials,
he has, with the knowledge of his superiors, informed
the. OS Arne and Naval Attaches in Rome of,. the case.
Exploitation of the OSO/Athens operation against the
Greek Communist Party is continuing with increase in
Greek surveillance personnel to 150 menrto provide for
adequate surveillance of suspects. Greek authorities plan..
court martial proceedings against h Iseph te.groups ;in the'
Communist underground, a left-wing newspaper will be
closed, and individual Communists who have penetrated a
left-wing political group will be prosecuted.
Swiss police cannot confirm a French press report of
30 Nov. that 2 of Vishinsky's aides in, the UN secretariat
had defected and fled to Switzerland. "French authorities
declare flatly that the story is entirely false.'
An OSO agent in Paris who was expelled from the French
Communist Party in 1948 has been called to Party-
Headquarters for searching interrogation and hopes to
be restored to membership.
OPC
The East German Peoples' Police is acceIrating its
drive against OPC propaganda efforts, to'discredit the
Grotewohl "unity" proposal for all Germany. -Repently,
they have carried out house-to-house seaches for an
TOP SECRET -;
(CONTINUED) 10 DECEMBER 191 CopyP

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