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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. 19 …A six-man CIA-controlled Albanian agent team crossed the border into Greece on 3 September…
  • p. 28 …Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved prospects of controlling Bulgarian intelligence activities in Northern…
  • p. 30 …d) On a scouting mission to Shi Cheng Tao, the CIA-controlled Korean fishing vessel SEA…
  • p. 73 …Two OSO agents have returned to Salzburg from a mission into Hungary during which they buried…
  • p. 76 …time mission to Sofia, where he will recruit a resident agent. OPC A CIA-controlled guerrilla…
  • p. 139 …Joint' American Nilitary Mission to Aid Turkey(JAAT) as cover for CIA-controlled Paramilitary operations in…
  • p. 174 …known in official US quarters, conferred "in strictest confidence" with the BGMARQUE Chief of Mission on…
  • p. 234 …This is aonersnot mission. The men will leave as soon as the'y have decqred the…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG -
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,14 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 15 Sept.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
030 Cont'd.
The French Secret Service advised OSO Paris that Dr.
Danios Morali, head of its psychological technical
service, wants to visit the U.S. to study CIA methods
of personnel selection and psychological aspects of
security, including use of the "lie detector".
Brigadier Gambier-Parry, Director of Communications for
the British Secret Service and Foreign Office, will visit
Canada and the U.S. in late October. OSO London reports
that he would like to meet the Director of Communications
and other CIA officials in Washington.
OPC
10 members of a CIA-controlled guerrilla.warfare team in
North Korea attacked the Chonnam mine at.Kwasan on 28 August.
They claim destruction of a laboratory machinery shed and
report 4 mine guards killed, 3 wounded and 3 taken prisoner.
The team's base was attacked by 27 men between 2 and b
September. 2 of the enemy were killed and 3 wounded. The
team suffered no losses. In another operation, the team
has claimed the destruction of a high tension cable and a
railroad bridge in its area. The Air Force has been
requested to confirm this claim.
Another CIA-controlled North Korean guerrilla warfare
team has radioed that its leader and 1 other member were
killed and 3 wounded in a fight with enemy forces between
4 and 7 September.
7 CIA-controlled Korean guerrillas based on Hoe-do Island
attacked a ferry steamer off Yongampo on -6 September,
killing 3 North Korean soldiers and capturing one of the
leaders of the local Fatherland Defense Committee.
(CONTINUED) COPY # 5OF 5.
-- TOP SECR ET SEP 14 1951

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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.