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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…
DIRECTOR'S LOG -
A.TEOF DATE 8:30 AM, 17 Septe- 8:30 AM, 18 Sept-
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
Mr. William Huie, Editor of the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will
magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported how coordinate
Mr. Forrestal employed a $50,000 "bribe$ to help settle the action with
French railway strike in 1947. Mr. Huie notes that: DD/P and DD/A.
a. This incident has. been omitted from the Forrestal.
papers now being published by the Herald-Tribune
Syndicate.
b. This money was carried to France by a Naval intelli-
gence agent and Admiral Hillenkoetter arranged to
make these contributions deductible.
c. Le Figaro in Paris has purchased rights to the
Forrestal papers and is disappointed about the omission
of the above "bribe".
Huie has requested us to either confirm or deny this story.
OSO
A Soviet defector recruited in Germany and trained as a W/T
agent in Japan parachuted into the USSR near Khabarovsk on
15 September from a sterilized B-26 manned by a Japanese
agent-crew. No ground reaction was reported.
Mr. Daniel D. Hunter, former OSO officer being reemployed in
Paris by CIA, leaves for London today to be briefed by Colonel
Bette in preparation for duty as CIA member of the Secretariat
of the SHAPE Clandestine Committee.
OPC
The Chinese Nationalist Air Force dzopped 10,000 leaflets on
Ch'uang Chou on 10 September. in another CIA-directed psychological
warfare operation against southern Etkienprovince.
(CONTINUED) COPY # _L_ OF 5. SEP 17 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.