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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…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
.TEOF DATE 8:30 AM,211 Sept.- 8:30 AM,25 Sept.
)CUMENT. RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
A translation of a secret-ink letter from a CIA-controlled
agent team in Albania has been received. Dated 5 August,
the letter acknowledges a July supply drop, the first of
three successful drops to this team and reports that the
team is .intact and active. The writer mentioned wide-spread
anti-Communist feeling in Northern Albania. He referred
specifically to one organization known as "For the Freedom
of Albania and Overthrow of Comaunism"; and said to number
both civilians and soldiers among its members. If this team
is as firmly established as the letter seems to indicate,
there is now a funnel in Northern Albania through which
supplies and additional agents can be put in.
Indications are that members of the Mlditary Junta of the
National Committee for a Free Albania cooperating with
CIA in operations against Albania havemade politically
inspired agent selections, have been lax securitywise, and
do not enjoy the confidence of at least one Albanian agent
team. Efforts will be made in future operations involving
the Junta either to isolate its members while-operations
are under way or to prevent its members from learning
operational details.
On 13 Sept. the National Committee for a Free Albania in
New York transmitted a cable to Albanian Premier Enver
Hoxha offering medicines and food stdffs to the Albanian
people, provided distribution could be supervised by an
impartial group. No reply has been received. Therefore,
the message will be released to the press and radio within
the next 2 days by the public relations' section of National
Committee for a Free Europe. Hoxhalis tacit refusal to
coopergte provides the basis for the next leaflets which
- CIA plans to disseminate to the Albanian people in the name
of the National Committee for a Free Albania.
TOP SECRET (COPY # / OF 5.)

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