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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. 4 …will advance no further argument designed to prevent the Burmese Government from referring the Li Hi…
  • p. 30 …This transfer represents an advance from A $50,000,000 item included in the MDAP program…
  • p. 64 …Earle, a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the view that psychological warfare operations…
  • p. 118 …the Arabian-AmericariaOil Company whereby CIA has advanced to the Company $350,000 toward the purchase…
  • p. 135 …to obtain advance information onmovements of shipping. These recommendations were presented to the President by Adm…
  • p. 163 …This is the first concrete advance in a program for economic warfare operations based in Switzerland…
  • p. 175 …advanced sircere peac66,proposals, these were laughingly rejected by the USSR and its satellites. Kingsbury Smith…
  • p. 216 …forced the govern- ment and the Shah to decide whether to advance resolutely against the Tudeh…
  • p. 228 …locate a Additional details are possible training site for use in the event'the ZRCORSET being…
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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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.