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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. 35 …the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported…
  • p. 46 …FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION ITEMS FROM COL. HANSEN Conversed with Drew Pearson at Doctors Hospital- late…
  • p. 70 …a meeting in either Washington or Col. Hansen New York with not more than a dozen…
  • p. 164 …on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a…
  • p. 172 …the press. Both - Col. Edwards and Col. Hansen advised informally that we' could not give significant…
  • p. 204 …Agency has requested our comment on Col. Hansen for direct an unsigned letter that Agency received…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,10 Dec. - 8:30 AM,ll Dec.
\TEOF DATE -CIO
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
OPC-subsidized clandestine newspaper and in jsever.al
factories pocket and body searches have been made at
the'end of the dav
Circumstances definitely indicate that the, fire on
1 Dec. in Macao which destroyed over HK $3,000,000
worth of petroleum and fertilizers, including 165,000
gallons gasoline, lubricating oil and paraffin -wax,
is the work of a CIA guerrilla team. In additioni,
it has been confirmed by the group that' about 330,drums
of gasoline were destroyed 15 October in Macao by this
group.
Further to' the Chefoo-Dairen cable-cutting operation first
reported 3 December 1951: -
DTRIGGER Seswolf cut cable at 0220 December 1. ' Picked
up approximately 120 yards of submarine.cgble, approximately
6 miles off Chefoo. Seawolf started toward home at 0100,
passed b steel 100 ton class Patrol boats; One patrol boat
challenged the Seawolf with a shot across ahe bow. When the
patrol boat came alongside the Seawolf, 'DTRIGGER men climbed
aboard the patrol boat. Seven patrol boat crew killed.
Boarding party ran out of ammunition, pulied away.and sank
patrol boat. with recoilless 57rM gun. Other pattol boats
tried to close in but were held off by gun fire. Seawolf
escaped in darkness and returned to Taechong-do early
morning 2 December. Seawolf casualties one killed; 14'
wounded. Seawolf returned Pusan 6 December' bringing cable.
00
The Defector Reception Center (Germany) received on. OSO is conducting prelim-
7 Dec. 1951, a Soviet Infantry Captain (former Major) inary interrogation to
who defected in Berlin on 5 December. ' determine the defector's
bonafides. When this is
- establi ed, 00 will cir-
TOP SECRET (CONTIUED),

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