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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. 67 …July by his elder brother offering covert US assistance to maintain the autonomy of Tibet. The…
  • p. 84 …usefulness if the Dalai Lama remains in Tibet and, accordingly, that CIA could make no commitments…
  • p. 157 …ticable, and that we should a plane be flown into Tibet for the evacuatioi simply reiterate…
  • p. 158 …Lhasa, and other Chinese his exit from Tibet must be troops believed to be stationed along…
RECEEVEDR'S LO polTIOND~
ATE OF DA8:30 AM,1 Oct - 8:30 AM, 2 Oct
MTF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
Intelligence furnished by a CIA-controlled guerrilla
force in North Korea enabled the Fifth~Air Force to bomb and
strafe a concentration of enemy troopa in the Kwesangbong area
of Korea on 23 September. A CIA agent who flew in one of the
planes as an observer reported .excellent:.results and secondary
explosions. -
The Dalai Lama of Tibet has responded to the State
Department message conveyed to him in. July by his elder brother
offering covert US assistance to maintain the autonomy of
Tibet. The response expressed deep regret that the Dalai Lama
was unable.to take immediate advantage of the US offer. The
Dalai Lama said that he was forced by circumstances and the
needs of his people to return to Lhasa but hoped that the US
would not lose confidence in him and would continue to be friendly.
OPC's two principal agents in Iran report the receipt of
a message from a source inside the Tudeh Party on 25 September in-
forming them that the Provincial Coraittee of the Tudeh Party has
advised Tudeh cells to be ready for action and to stand by for in-
structions to "get to work". The source did not know what."work"
meant, but believed it meant revolution or major civil disturbance.
The field cautions that the report is not entirely clear and states
that no information on a planned Communist-inspired revolution-
has been received from embassy or other CIA sources. The field
comments, however, that regardless of the-validity of the report
it appears evident that increased Tudeh Party ;activity is imminent.
US officials in Teheran have been infored of the report. . At
headquarters, it has been placed' in :the normal intelligence distribution
channels.
COPY # of 5.
TOP SECRET
0CT 1 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.