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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
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,28 Sept - 8:30 AM, 29 Sept.
OCUMENT RECEIVED PROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
would be removed from the obstructive and suspect Turkish
National Security Service are to remain within the jurisdic-
tion of the head of that organization, who appears to have
regained at least some measure of his former stature. Pros-
pects for the use of Turkish territory as a base for covert
operations into the USSR and the Balkans have improved,
however. Taking advantage of the cccasion of Turkey's
imminent entry into the NATO, U.S.Ambassador Wadsworth has
informed the Turkish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
of U.S. interest in conducting prospective operations from
Turkey into adjacent Communist areas. The 2 Turkish officials
expressed willingness to cooperate and have-agreed to the
conduct of negotiations and liaison for this purpose through
the Turkish General Staff, rather thPp the TNSS.
The League of Nazi Persecutees, an organization which has been
covertly supported by CIA since it broke with the Communist
front association of Nazi Persecutees, is preparing for
active resistance in the East Zone of Germany and for
countereabotage operations in Western Germany. The League
has 20,000 members of Western Germany and moz'e than 500 in
Berlin and the East Zone. Its activities have been limited
previously to political and psychological warfare.
-CCOPY #J OF 5. Si28TOP SECRET SEl p28 1151

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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.