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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 .SECkiT -CIIRJ!Y I~FRMAnto DC
- -DIRECTOR'-S LOG
8:30 AM, 17 Dec.- 8:30 AM, 18 Dec.
TE OF DATE -TO
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT N ACTION
OSO
Chief, OSO/Belgrade met for the first time ith the Yugoslav
Intelligence officer designated to conduct dliaison with him
and presented a broad and comprehensive outline of CIA's
views on the relationship. The Yugoslav reply, expected this
week, should define the initial scope of the liaison, after.''
which the Chief of Station will return to Washington for
discussion of its further development. The Yugoslav
representative confirmed that 050's Chief of Station is
personally acceptable and that his past intelligence activities
in Yugoslavia will not prejudice the association.
A Finnish agent, who has performed 2 missions in Soviet OSO is arranging, with
Karelia for the Army Attache/Helsinki acting for OSO, Army approval and as-
escaped illegally last month to Sweden to avoid arrest sistance, to evacuate
by the Finnish Border Guard on Soviet requa't. Following ''the agent to Germany,
hisarrestby Swedish authorities,' he gave Swedish in order to protect
Intelligence' full account or his activities, including both the Army Attache/
the identity of the agent who accompanied him on both Helsinki and the agent
missi,dns but is still in Finland, though unidentified in Finland.
by either Finnish or Soviet authorities. To forestall
an anticipated Finnish request-for extradition; Swedish
Intelligence has now offered to release the agent to
OSO/Stockholm for immediate removal frm Sweden.
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TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) 17 DECEMBER 1951 COPY # L OF 7.
SECURITY INFORNATION 3

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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.