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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 SECRET
DIRECTOR'S IO00
8:30 AM, 28 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 29 Dec.
TEOF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM T0 SUBJECT ' .'ACTION
OPC
A three-man team will be sent into Albania overland to
detern.ne the effect of the recent propaganda leaflet
and supply drops in that country. This is aonersnot
mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred
the necessary information on the 4ffedtiveness of the -
CIA drops.
Two junks dispatched to rendezvous point to pick up
communications teams bound for Chinese guerrillat
columns,were seized by the Hong Kong police prior to
contact, and towed to Hong Kong harbor on 22 J'ec. A
thtrd junk the SS Hobe- and tedk aboard, ,indigenous
agonts trained to couateract Communist it} tration. A
prelimipary report iAdicates that the opdration was not
compromised, although apparently the Bong Kong 'police
Vere informed to an unknswn extent.
CIA has successfuhr completed negotiations for the ex-
clusive use of Fort Randolph, Canal Zone, 'as' a reception
and rehabilitaton center for defectors and go agentsYwhenthe .usefulnesof such aliffstas -beq ted or ' .
scourity considerations require such act' e p e
of esta lishing suoh a center is to rebge'idv % control;the
defectors under secure conditiond, to oz'ient,.' em tothe
democratic way of life, and to provide duch language and
vocational training as may be essential to their self-
suppgrt in a&new environment, Upon completion of rehabilitation
of the individuals, they will be disposed of by resettlembnt
in foreign countries, principally in Latin America. 'The US
Army will provide cover, and the activity will be known as the
Army Civilian Rehabilitation Center.
Communications Received: DD/P.
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