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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.
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* TOP..SECRET'- DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM, 13 Sept, 8:30 AM, 4 Sept. ATEOF DATE iCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC General Phao, Thai Chief of Police and key CIA-backed official in the Thai government, had meetings in Washington 12 September with CIA officials and with Generals Bolling and Taylor. He lunched with representatives of the International Police Force and toured the FBI. On 13 September, he toured the .CIC detachment at Fort Holabird. Meetings between Phao 'and CIA officials have been satisfactory on all points. He has made two statements of significance. He categorically assured General Taylor that there will be no more internal disturbances in Thailand. He is undertaking to bring the Thai Navy into the "Inter-Strategy Board" and make it a full member of the governing team. Nationalist guerrilla forces C-1 and C-6, elements of TENTACLE No. 1 of CIA-directed operation OCTOPUS, landed on the Chinese Mainland on 6 September. C-1 engaged Conunist forces soon after landing and suffered 30 casualities. C-6, which landed at a nearby point with 150 men, was engaged by Communist forces the following day at Lu Lung Shan and reported 19 Communists killed. TENTACLE No. 2 of Operation OCTOPUS left Chin Men Island for the mainland on 7 September. On 8 September, Nationalist sources reported that the Communists possessed detailed information on TENTACLE No. 2 including landing point and size-of force. The Communists -were reported rushing troops to the landing area. . TENTACLE No. 2 was informed while enzoute and instructed ,to return to base without landing. (CONTINWED) COPY # I OF 5. SEP 13 1951 -TOP SECRET -
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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.