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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,14 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 15 Sept.
ICUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
On a scouting mission to Shi Cheng Tao, the CIA-controlled
Korean fishing vessel SEA DRAGON captured a Chinese fishing boat
and its nine crew members five miles off shore on 6 September.
Handbills opposing the Japanese peace treaty, were distri-
buted by Communists in Tokyo on 5 September. As a retaliatory
measure, CIA prepared leaflets that closely resembled them in form
and content but altered so as to make their Communist origin more
obvious and nauseating to the Japanese. The new leaflets were
distributed under cover of darkness in Tokyo and beach resort areas.
The Chinese Nationalist Air Force dropped 10,000 leaflets in
a CIA-directed operation on 4 September over Shihma in southern
Fukien province, the area against which..TgNTACLE NO.1 of guerrilla
warfare operation OCTOPUS is directed..:' The Chinese Communists have
been reported rushing collectors to gather the leaflets dropped and
issuing orders to the people not to read them.
This week's editions .of LIFE and TIME publicized-:a map of slave
labor camps in the USSR prepared by the CIA-supported Free
Trade Union Committee of the American Federation of Labor. The
map caused an incident at the San Francisco conference when a copy
was handed to Soviet delegate Gromyko. Several hundred copies were
posted on Berlin walls during August as part of CIA-supported efforts
to counteract the Communists-dominated rally of the World Federation
of Democratic Youth.
nD/A
The Comproller's office completed the transfer of $10,000,000
to MDAP funds this date. The funds will be allocated to OPC for
Projects BGMARQJE AND HIERLIN. This transfer represents an advance
from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program for jransfer to
CIA during this fiscal year.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # OOF $ SEP 14 1951

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