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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. 2 …Chief of Station, Madrid, feels that further discussion should await the arrival of the official CIA…
  • p. 72 …stay- behind operations in Spain informed O0SO/Madrid in strictest con- fidence that this program may…
  • p. 92 …Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret…
  • p. 107 …Tnis infonaation was brought to the attention of our representative in Madrid. ho requested that the…
  • p. 119 …On 26 October, Otto SKORZENY showed the Assistant Air Attache, Madrid, Spainy copies of reports allegedly…
  • p. 131 …He will arrive in Madrid approximately 18 November 1951. Colonel Thomas Betts, Senior CIA Representative in…
  • p. 168 …US Air Attache/Madrid has advised tht he is acting con- OSO will ask the Air…
  • p. 171 …official liaison with the Spanish Services in Madrid. A large US electronic instrument firm, which has…
  • p. 208 …Chief; British Secret Service/Madrid has indicated to the U.S. Legal Attache that the British…
  • p. 217 …OSO/Madrid, however, reports that the Chief of Spanish Intelligence wants the project to' continue on…
- TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG 1,
8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM,
ATE OF DATE
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
A final report has been received on the results of a
successful. diversionary raid on the Hsailu Peninsula on 10
and 11 September by a Nationalist guerrilla element of
CIA-directed TENTACLE No. 1. The element killed 40 Chinese.
Communists and captured 18. It also captured 38 weapons
and an assortment of documents, newspapers and stamps. Seven
buildings were destroyed during the raid.
The field is investigating a report that a South Korean Arny
Lieutenant who participated, presumably unwittingly, in the
recent Rame conference of the CIA-supported International
Federation of World Veterans' Organizations may have
. suspicions that the U.S. government -financed his activities
and is contributing to the support of the Fiederation.,-
Several thousand copies of a miniature edition of the National
Committee for a Free Albania newspaper, SHQIPERIA, were air
dropped over Albania on the night of 17 -,18 September. The
miniature edition contained an article answering charges against
the NCFA distributed by leaflet earlier this summer by the
Yugoslav-controlled Albanian exile committee. No opposition
was encountered during the operation, although the muzzle
flashes of anti-aircraft guns we're observed at Tirana.
NEWSWEEK devoted the cover and a special article in its 17
September issue to the activities of Radio Free Europe.
From a second cable addressed to the OPC Chief of Station in
Hong Kong by CIA Taipei with regard to Gen. Chennault's secretary,
Headquarters surmises that the secretary: acting as a courier,
passed a message to BGMARJE headquarters which was obviously
intended for another party. The message read:
(CONTINUED) COPY # _ OF 5.
TOP SECRET SEP
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