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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. 11 …on a mission to kidnap an individual cooperating with a CIA cover organization in -estern Germany…
  • p. 17 …OSO Djakarta believes he prefers to cooperate with the u.S. A Chinese claning to represent…
  • p. 34 …The American Red Cross has expressed appreciation for the "grand cooperation" of CIA personnel in the…
  • p. 44 …Bird is cooperating closely with CIA .there. Congressman Rogers and Killam's parents TOP. SECRET (CONTINUED…
  • p. 47 …The articles,,prepared by a CIA agent in cooperation with British intelligence, were planted through a…
  • p. 49 …Lie the expansion of cooperation between OSO and the Norwegian party's intelligence organization, which he…
  • p. 52 …the National Committee for a Free Albania cooperating with CIA in operations against Albania havemade politically…
  • p. 56 …A CIA agent in Germany has enlisted the cooperation of the East Zone Assistant Postmaster General…
  • p. 65 …The 2 Turkish officials expressed willingness to cooperate and have-agreed to the conduct of negotiations…
  • p. 80 …have 'attributed the agent's arrest to cooperation between U. S. intelligence and German- authorities. OPC…
  • p. 98 …Tudeh plans for Mehregan (the Autumn Festival). Cooperation with our agents led to the/arrest of…
  • p. 110 …Guaranty Trust is most cooperative, will divulge nothing further' and ddes not appear concerned by possible…
  • p. 115 …the Ozeek - Intelligence services with the secret cooperation of OSO. The traffic of this W/T…
  • p. 118 …willing'to cooperate in such a-project. This action is being taken in view of difficulties…
  • p. 134 …Although the owner of the Island was agreeable and cooperative there was parliamentary opposition and it…
  • p. 135 …to Economic Cooperation Administration. The President has now cancelled this NSC project in view of his…
  • p. 139 …the field to shown complete reluctance to 'cooperate with his superiors furnish details of and has…
  • p. 142 …been fully clarified, with close and infoiaed cooperation expected. in the future. Mutual benefit will .result…
  • p. 144 …Ladd was given a copy of CIA's message to the field on,,CIA/FBI cooperation…
  • p. 147 …that 'tripartite program of this kind in cooperation (between U. S., U. K.,-and Belgium) was…
  • p. 165 …to inforia of possible'need fir his cooperation in arranging aid to police and.security agencies…
  • p. 175 …Kingsbury Smith, European representative of 'the International News Service, is cooperating in a plan to pick…
  • p. 179 …useful group in order to get its cooperation with the Political Center. (CONTINUED) - TOP SECRET LL…
  • p. 205 …Discussion was specific and detailed but cordial and cooperative. Working-level liaison has been establ shedbetieen…
  • p. 229 …Lie hesitates to expand his cooperation with OSO, but has agreed t';furnish monthly reports on…
  • p. 230 …Lay, NSC, express~d apprecistion and~s 5ristlon for high degree of cooperation and assistance 'kitdered…
  • p. 231 …to remedyia' ituation which- -P- be4 exteaemely cooperative witfri.)SO/Athens auring- the could be disastrous…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,20 Sept._.8:30 AM, 21 Sept.
TE OF DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT. ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
The field has been requested to confirm that Mrs. Boull is
the secretary involved and to cable .a summary of security
breaches she has comitted plus any available information
regarding Chinese Communist or other pressure on her due to
her husband's situation.
Mrs. Boull's husband, former CAT chief pilot Robert Lawrence
Boull, was captured by Chinese Communists in Yunnan in
December 1949 when Nationalist fordes which CAT was supplying
defected en masse. He was held in Mungtse for six months and
then moved to Kungming from which he has been able to pass
reports of his well. being at intervals. Mrs. Bodll was
granted an operational security clearance in August 1950 with
the proviso that she be closely supervised and controlled in
view of her husband' s situation. An operational clearance for
her husband was held in abeyance in August 1950 pending release
by the. Communists. There was no derogatory information in
government files on either Mr. or Mrs. Boull at that time.
Miss Nora McKenn, a British subject in'Bombay allegedly employed
there by the USIS, has written a number of letters destined
for Congressman Rogers of Florida and the:parents of Roger Grayson
Killam. Killam, he'ex-common law husband and a former Lt. Col.
in the Fourteenth Air-Force, was reportedly engaged in smuggling
activities with the Comunists in Southeast Asia after his
demobilization. The letters urged an investigation into the
death or disappearance of Killam in Bangkok on h February 1951
and spggested that further information could be obtained from
Peter Joost or Willis Bird, identified in the letters as
employees of CIA, or from General Walter B. Smith.
Joost is a deep cover CIA agent in Bangkok. Bird is cooperating
closely with CIA .there. Congressman Rogers and Killam's parents
TOP. SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. SEP 20 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.