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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 -o38d hr g.j
8:30 AM, 5 Oct.- 8 :30 AM, 6 Oct. &/g- P
)ATE OF DATE--
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
General K. W. D. Strong is scheduled to arrive in Washington
Sunday, October 7.
Mr. Gordon Gray has requested DCI approval of "HUNMER", a Noted by Mr. Dulles
"Psychological Operations Plan Incident to Korean Cease- and sent to DD/P
Fire Negotiations". for recommendation.
030
An OSO officer introduced by the New York office of Contact
Division/00 conferred with Associated Press executives on use
of the AP Bureau Chief in Vienna in connection with exploitation
of the two recent high-level Czech defectors. The Associated
Press agreed to OSO's proposal subject- to specific limitations
stated in writing.
Two experienced OSO agent teams entered Bulgaria on 27.and 29
September. One team escorted across the frontier aniT agent from
Trieste on a one-time mission to Sofia, where he will recruit
a resident agent.
OPC
A CIA-controlled guerrilla force in North Korea staged a surprise
raid on a small group of North Korean troops on 19 September,
killing sixteen, wounding eleven and capturing three. Two
guerrillas were killed and two wounded.-
Delegates from Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaya, Vietnam,
Hong Kong, and Japan gathered at a radio station near Manila
on 1 October for the first Asiatic seminar of the CIA-controlled
Far East Broadcasting Company. The seminar, designed as a counter-
measure to Commnist propaganda in the Orient, has as its theme
TOPSECRET (CONTINUED) COPY #:/_OF 5 OCT 5 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.