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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. 53 …with troops from Fort Eustis. The OSO Registry processed 2,912 outgoing pouch items during the…
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
1TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 25 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 26 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
One of the CIA-controlled guerrilla forces operating in
North Korea has recruited 150 additional men recently and
made 3 raids between I and 7 Sept. In a raid on a manu-
facturing plant, it inflicted 21 casualties, fired a ware-
house and plant buildings, destroyed 40 bales of foodstuffs
and killed 15 service cattle. In another raid, it inflicted
l6 casualties anddestroyed a locomotive repair shop, a saw
mill, 2 newly-built factories, an oil storage shed, 7 loco-
motives and 3 small bridges. In the third, the force burned
the local offices of the Communist party and inflicted 5
casualties, including the local chief of the party's General
Affairs Section.
CIA-controlled guerrillas on the west coast of Korea have
rescued 2 more downed FEAF pilots, one on 17 August and the
other on 6 Sept.
An attempt was made recently to kidnap an important official
of the League of Freedom Loving Lawyers, a CIA-sponsored
organization, which has gained considerable publicity in
East Germany. The Berlin Government is being asked to
furnish a police guard at the officials,home and, if
possible, police escort during travel.- CIA-controlled
outlets in Berlin and East Germany are publicizing the
abduction attempt.
A CIA agent in Germany has enlisted the cooperation of the
East Zone Assistant Postmaster General in Charge'of Censorship.
The latter reports that staggering amounts of overt Western
propaganda are caught by East Zone censors. He hopes to be
able to continue his duties while surreptitiously allowing
its distribution.
(CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. SEP 251951
TOP SECRET

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