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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.-
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DIRECTOR'S LOG -
8:30 AM,29 Dec. - 8:30 AM, 0 Dec.
TE: OF -DA'TE--.
XCUMENT RECEIVED FROM -1 SUBJECT ,. . ACTION
OSO -
Army G-2 representatives discussed with OSQofficers't OSO reaf Wd Sts
case of a Hungarian agent of :CIC/Austria whose emijration position that it has
to the U.S. as a DP under G-2'sponsorship r, sbeenodelayed reported available -
by :seriously derogatory information furnished froOSO nmdiption, without
files to other Government- agencies. The 02 offic2r . iagki any determinaa1.nn
advised. that exhaustive overseas investigatien by Ar' asd .on it, and
- had disproved the allegations implicit On s data :gested than 04i2 rviw
-2 additio1. efficers
involved 1k the case
prior to'presenting it to
- -State,
After discussion with Gem. Charles E Hart, Chik Qf
the U.S. Military Mission in Athens, Ambassador
- Peunloy has acted to minimize the damage CIK
interesta in Greece which inight be causecP the -
- -sudden replacement of Gen. Nikolopoulas aa Wiictor
of Greek Intelligence by a sucbessor Lis sympathetic-
to the U.S. As a.result, Lt. Gen.. Grigorppoulos, Chief
of the Greek General Staf$f has given assurance that
ileklopoulos vit.ramai2jmfull oontrel- of tho of:ice -
for 2 to 6 sontvi du'ing theorientation of his rejlaoement
and'wlin no. event be removed withoutb U.S. consent based
on satisfaetion with his successor. Thia expedient gains
time for the possible accession af Gen. Papagos ,to power -
within the next few months, in which case Nikolpbulos -- Y
will be retained, and in any case insures the:ecise of_
U.S. influence in selecting an alter"at rep acest, if
the present designee is inaccaptable..
OPC .
The Germans are insisting in .the European defense 'treaty
- that a clause be inserted which would in effect, mean the -.
(O4TINUED) 29.DECERBER 1951 COPY # OF 7.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.