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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. 35 …the American Mercury, in both this Col. Hansen will magazine and the current Cosmopolitan has reported…
  • p. 46 …FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION ITEMS FROM COL. HANSEN Conversed with Drew Pearson at Doctors Hospital- late…
  • p. 70 …a meeting in either Washington or Col. Hansen New York with not more than a dozen…
  • p. 164 …on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a…
  • p. 172 …the press. Both - Col. Edwards and Col. Hansen advised informally that we' could not give significant…
  • p. 204 …Agency has requested our comment on Col. Hansen for direct an unsigned letter that Agency received…
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.