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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 INEORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG - -
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,15 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 18 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTI.ON
OSO -
Discussing the reported capture of 2 members of tte CIA-
Dutch agent team dropped into Rumania on 18 Oct. ,the.
Chief of Dutch Intelligence remarked that we must expect
such reverses, and added that he hopes for better luck
with the joint team of Bulgarian agents scheduled for
spring dispatch. SO/Lhe Hague notes that a Dutch
Communist newspaper mentioned no Dutch. connection in
reporting the incident but listed the team's captured
equipment in such accurate detail as, to make it. doubtful
that any members still at liberty have means of comnuniication
TRAINING
HTrIUTUAL - We have received a request -foom v/O'C to conduct
Project HTNutual which involves the training of .5to 10
Philippinos. This is to commence around the early pait of
. February and'will, in all probability, extend over a period
of from h to 5 weeks.
MKIMOfNO - Nine Political Action students were, delivered to, the
custody of TRC on 1 December 1951. They have been given extensive
briefing and a program has been carried out which included . .
extensive individual personal interviews, the writing of their
individual personal histories and the writing of their views on
"Democracy versus Communism". Polygraph tests of'each individual
student, plus two instructors not previously given these tests,
were commenced on 12 December 1951.
MISC
Mr. Gordon Gray has requested special intelligende clearance
for his Deputy, Mr. Tracy Barnes. AD/CI
NSC has approved our request to withdraw NSC 10/h from
further consideration. - . -
TOP SECRET 15 DECEiBER 1951 COPY # .l OF 7.

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