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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
TOP SECR'T
SSECURITY INFORMATION -
DIRECTOR'S LOG a ' U*e.
'TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 22 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 23 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
Training
Two members of the Maritime Training Branch are attending
a symposium. on underwater swimming, sponsoied by the
National Research Council in Coronado, Calf. on comple-
tion they will inspect Santa Catalina srand forits
suitability as a maritime training base: .
ISOLATION - Administrative Services has arranged meetings
for 26 Dec. in Richmond, Virginia, with owaiers oft2
housing developments to discuss'possibilities of obtaining
advanced commitments of rental of a block ofhouses for
use by ISOLATION personnel.
ZRELOPE - An investigation has been started to. locate a Additional details are
possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being assembled on the 3
site is not available. An informal inquiry has been :other sites in order to
made to the Bureau. of Yards and Docks and they have determine whether an
suggested 5 possible areas. Of these, 2 are inadequate inspection of each is
or not adaptable either due to location or lack of desirable. Also various
acreage. . - sites inspected in late
1950 and the early part of
1951 are being restudied
as to possible use for
paramilitary training
;junder ZRELOPE.
MISC
-r. John H. Ohly, Ast. to the Director of Matual DD/A.
Security, has withdrawn his letter to Mr. Lawton
concerning the inclusion of an additional ,50AO0,000
in the FY 1953 Mutual Security program for peCial
purposes in the Far East.
TOP SECRET 22 CIy95-

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