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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.
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TOP SECRET - DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE -8:30 AM,l2 Dec. - 8:30 AM,-L Dec. )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO Cont'd. A British Secret Service officer told OSO/London that* Brigadier J.H. Nicholson will replace Air Commodore James.A. Easton as Asst. Chief and Air Commodore Easton will step up to Maj. Gen. John Alexander Sinclair's position of Vice Chief. Gen. Sinclair will, become Chief when Maj..Gen. Sir Stewart Menzies retires. These changes are expected in about 6 months. OPC The: Fukibn Anti-Communist National Salvation Army, a force of 1,000 CIA trained guerrillas, conducted their fourth diversionary raid on Chinese Co)mmunist held territory on 7 Dec. This time the guerrillas traveled 90 miles from theirhome base; Chin-men Island, 'sfd raided Nan-jih Island 6 miles off shore ofj )entral' Fukien - Province. During the raid 13 motorized Chinese Communist junks were badly mauled by a Chinese Nationalist warship while attempting to reinforce the Island. The raiders withdrew after } hours of combat which resulted inChinese Communist losses-of 100 dead and wounded and the capture of 14 regulars of the 249th Regiment, 83 civilians,. one radio operator and a number of militia to Chinese Nationalist losses of 8 dead .and 23 wounded. 60 The East and West Coast Bureaus of FBIS have been alerted to file. to Washington all materialson the reported Brazilian mobilization of troops for. the United Nations. This arrangement was set up following inquiries-fiom the office of Brig. Gen. Edwin L. Sibert, Inter'American Defense Board. - - (CONTINUED) * TOP SECRET 12 DECEMBER 1951 COPY # . OF 7.
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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.