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Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
&TE OF' DATE 8:30 AM,5 Sept. - 8:30 AM, 6 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Con't)
have been made in southern Fukien province. One additional
drop has been made, location as yet unreported.
Negotations have begun with the government of Panama for the
leasing of San. Jose Island to serve as a defector disposal
center for CIA. U.S. Ambassador John C. Wiley approached the
Panamanian Foreign Office on 3September, requesting the lease
on behalf of the U.S. Army, ostensibly for use as an
Army Civilian Rehabilitation Center. The Acting Foreign
Minister assured Ambassador Wiley that the matter would
receive prompt attention. He stated that he saw no reason
hwyprompt approval should not be forthcoming.
TOP SECRET COPY # L OF 5. SEP 5-1951

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