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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
SECURITY INFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
1TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,12 Dec. - 8:30 AM,13 Dec
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT -, ACTION
00 Cont'd.
The Sovmat Staff has today released for di ses.niton a 46
page report on the Soviet T/34 tan The tank was, ca tured
in Korea and examined in detail nder
contract with.CIA. The vehicle was completely casassembled
and technical examination was made of all components. Where
possible, the report compares findings with those of the
US Army and of the German investigators, each of whom had
performed extensive analyses on earlier examples of this
Soviet type tank.
Miscellaneous
The President has directed that the Office of Defense DD/A
Mobilization provide a mechanism to coordinate within
the Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government -
an integrated and effective program to maet, t)e nation's
requirements for blood, blood derivatives and related
substances.
Sec/Def has'approved our request that the Armed Forces DD/A
Medical Policy Council be authorized to meet with 'a
representative of this Agency.
Mr. Lay DCI By memorandum action the NSC has dissolved the'Special Informed Dr. Langer and
NSC Cormittee on East-West Trade. Following prpjects,.on ' Dr. Millikan.
which action was not completed by the Special Committee,
have been referred to Mr. Bohlen and Gen. Roberts (Mr.
Harriman's office) for action: Japanese Trade with :the
Soviet Bloc, Analysis of Soviet Bloc's Trade with the
Free World, .and Decreasing Reliance on Trade. with the
Soviet Bloc-
The. President has designated Mr. Edward T. Dickinson,
Vice Chairman of the NSRB, as Senior NSRB member of the
NSC Staff.
TOP SECRET 12 DECEDBER 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.