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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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  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
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.