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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. 3 …CIA controlled fishing vessels based at Hoe-do Island, off the Korean coast, recently sank a…
  • p. 18 …They will be escorted on a trip to the West Coast, returning to Washington on 23…
  • p. 56 …CIA-controlled guerrillas on the west coast of Korea have rescued 2 more downed FEAF pilots…
  • p. 110 …The area raided was the southern coast of Fukien Province, approximately 23 miles southeast of Chin…
  • p. 120 …The group of young Indonesians picked up off the northen coast of Celebes Island by a…
  • p. 127 …to Antung with a 13-man crew was captured 10 miles off the Manchurian. coast on…
  • p. 135 …of personnel to expand the current screening program of seamen and longshoremen; additional Coast Guard patrol…
  • p. 163 …North Korean coast by a CIA-controlled. fishing boat has been turned over to the 5th…
  • p. 169 …threat to the. security of the Saipan base. A diversionary raid on the coast of Chgkiang…
  • p. 206 …60 The East and West Coast Bureaus of FBIS have been alerted to file. to Washington…
  • p. 217 …Cho Do and Soc Do, on the west coast of Korea above All CIA personnel are…
4 "TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 20 Sept. 8:30 AM(,21 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
.PC (Cont'd)
have approached the State Department. The State Department has
approached CIA. The Chief, Inspection and Security Staff,
is handling the matter.
OPC Hong Kong suggests that if HTMERLIN has reached- the
overt stage at this time, it appears probable that General Now
would rally to the flag, bringing the '19,000,000 bucks with him.
A clandestine C A Albanian language transmitter, identifying
itself as the VOICE OF FEE ALBANIA, stai-ted regularly scheduled
shortwave broadcasts into Albania on 18 September. The trans-
mitter is in the vicinity of Athens but'its location will not
be divulged in the broadcasts to Albania. No attempt to
establish the transmitter as being located within Albania
will be made, but it is anticipated thattihis inferrence may
gain credence.
MISCELLANEOUS
Mr. Gordon Gray has forwarded for appropriate action by CIA DD/P
Plan TAKEOFF which has been approved by PSB.
COPY #L OF 5. SEP 20 1951
TOP SECRET

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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.