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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.
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TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG A18Sept. 19 Sept. \TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 8:30 AM, )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OPC (Cont'd) to the State Department, U.S. Ambassador Briggs in Prague recommended more balloon launchings to counter increasingly effective jamming of VOA and E.Ebroadcasts by the satellite powers. OPC Taipei cabled OPC Hong Kong as follows on 17 September: "Security question has arisen concerning Chennault's secretary which could be serious. Will hold off investigation until you (OPC Hong Kong Chief of Station) arrive here. Suggest you come as soon as feasible." Headquarters has no further information oilthe matter to date. On 10 and 11 September a Nationalist guerrilla element of CIA-directed TENTACLE No. 1 completed a-successful diversionary raid on the Hsialu Peninsula. The force took ten prisoners and a quantity of arms. Air reconnaissance showed two buildings afire. In conjunction with the guerrilla raid, Nationalist planes dropped 21,000 leaflets over the area. Chinese Nationalist agents dispatched to the mainland on 23 August from Pishan Island to seek information on a guerrilla group in northern Cheklang report finding'the group still active and operating with another group of 100 men in -the area. The combined force is reported to have inflicted 50% casualties on a Chinese Communist battalion in recent operations and to have almost annihilated two companies of the Communist 309th.Regiment. ADMINISTRATION Senator Homer Ferguson stated in an interview with the New York TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) Copy #_J of 5 SEP i 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.