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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.
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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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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.