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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. 57 …to participate in the Federations's recent Rome conference. A CIA agent who has completed a…
  • p. 68 …A representative from the Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return Reason to Frankfurt…
  • p. 73 …the- editorial offices from New York to Rome-wi thin the next three months. Mr. Gogh…
  • p. 87 …Gesualdo Barletta, Chief of the Secret Affairs Division of the Italian Ministry of Interior in Rome…
  • p. 149 …Albania considered by officials will be distributed at a reception in Rome to celebrate of CIA…
  • p. 177 …will be highlighted by a large reception in Rome which will be attended by members of…
  • p. 191 …The covertly controlled Rome celebration of Albanian Independence Day on 28 Nov. was attended by'166…
  • p. 200 …OSO/Rome has cabled the preliminary debriefing, conducted. OSO is giving first by an agent of…
  • p. 203 …The Chief of the Swiss IS, currently in Rome, has - been discussing matters of mutual interest…
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 under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.