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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.
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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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.