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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
)ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 5-Oct.- 8:30 AM, 6 Oct.
)OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
"Freedom by Truth for Asia". Philippines Defense Secretary
Ramon Magsaysay and noted American speakers have been invited
to attend.
Messages were received on 15 and 28 September from one
of the two British teams dropped into the Ukraine in mid-June.
The first stated that contact points could be kept open until
the end of October for the reception of a new British-controlled
Ukrainian team but cautioned that. conditidns'inside are extremely
difficult. The second confinned advice' prviously received that
the otheriBritish-controlled team dropped into the Ukraine in '
mid-June was wiped out by Soviet security forces. A group of
overland couriers traveling to contact the surviving team in
the Ukraine was successfully infiltrated icidns the Bavarian-
Czech border in late September.
An RAF plane flying from England to Egypt dropped 500,000
leaflets over Albania on the night of 28/29 September. One-
half of the cargo consisted of leaflets prepared by CIA.
MISCELLANEOUS
Navy has approved our training agreement for the purpose : Cl. Baird
of raining a limited number of selected career employees.
COPY # OF 5. - OC 51
TOP SECaET

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