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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 INFOIRMATION
-. DIRECTOR'S LOG
%TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,19 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 20 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT - ACTION
DD/A
The meeting with the Armed Forces Medica4Policy Council was
attended by the Chief,.Mliedical Staff, as scheduled, Items
were discussed as originally coordinated wi;thin the. Agency
and.appeared to have a favorable reception by. the Council.
Adm... pugh, U.S. Navy, requested the opportunity to further
study the proposals and final action was deferred pending
completion of the study. The Council Secretary will keep
the Chief, Medical Staff, informed as, to developments.
ORR
Dr. Millikan visited- to discuss a program ot
research in the field of economic development 'whichI-]
proposed to undertake with funds from the State Dept. and
from, private. sources..
MISC.
Gen. Bolling has been advised that (a) the DCI is in accord
w e suggestion that an agreement should be developed
the conditions under which Ar Intelligence may
conduct espionage and counterespionage operations, overseas;
(b) it seemed desirable that the Navy and.Air, Force should -
be included in such an agreement; (c)fKirkpatrick will
pursue this matter further with- -2' s designated representative..
Gen. Weckerling has recommended that (a) NIE-35 (Probable AD/NE for preparation a
Development in Indochina during the Remainder of 1951) be proposed reply for DCI
revised; (b) since the 30-day armistice negotiation period signature.
in Korea is about to expire and the actions of Communist
negotiators .may give some indication of Communist future
intentions, that this revision be delayed until after the
beginning of 1952.
The Director for Mutual Security, and the Chairman, NSRB, have
been requested to nominate representatives on the Economic'-
Intelligence Com tggcgtrhorized under NSCID 15.
19DECEMBER 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.