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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
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,4 sept. - 8:30 AM, Set.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
CIA agent Robert Staton, reported in a generally depressed
condition after suffering minor injuries in a jeep accident
on Formosa on 26 August, arrived in Pittsburgh, the head-
quarters of his ostensible employer, on 2 Sept. He reached
Washington on 4 Sept. for examination by CIA medical officials.
Doctors found Staton's condition and mental outlook improved
before his departure from Taipei and he was permitted, therefore,
to travel alone.
CIA Frankfort reports that Joseph W. Reidy, a staff officer
engaged in German based phases of operations against Albania,
has suffered a physical collapse from overwork. He must
take a long rest and will be out of action indefinitely.
His duties have been re-assigned.
CIA controlled fishing vessels based at Hoe-do Island, off
the Korean coast, recently sank a Chinese fishing boat and
captured 2 Chinese and 1 North Korean vessel of the same
type. 6 prisoners were captured and brought back to Hoe-do.
Sate Dept. has authorized CIA to attempt the sabotage of
a Chinese Communist owmed merchant vessel, either in Manila
or Bangkok, using facsimile packages inserted in the cargol
This operation is to be undertaken to determine the feasibility
of the technique prior to granting policy clearance for sabotage
operations against Chinese Communist vessels outside of
Chinese Communist waters generally.
State Dept. has authorized.lights over the Chinese mainland by
CAT aircraft when they are supplying guerrilla unite.
State Dept. has authorized temporary continuance of clandestine
support to the forces of Li Hi. Support must be in the form
of currency to be passed to Li Mi's representatives within
TOP SECRET (CONTINUD) COY i O 5. A

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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.