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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. 74 …8:30 AM, )0CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION OSO The Pentagon has warned EUCOM that…
  • p. 205 …Pentagon, to the possible a series of meetings with the service representatives on detriment of CIA…
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.