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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
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,12 Oct. - 8:30 AM, 13 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO - SUBJECT ACTION
OPC Cont'd.
An "Open Letter to Pastor Niemobller" has been distributed
- by the CIA-sponsored Associition of Political Refugees,
countering Niemoeller's statement that ha had. seen no
evidence of heavy training by the East German Alert Police
fbereitschaften) while visiting the Easte'rn Zone. 'The
letter cites 12 specific instances of Alert Police heavy
weapons and tank training. Thirty-seven thousand copies
of the pamphlet were printed, initially, and se many
additional requests were received that 75,000 more were
distributed.
A 122-men CIA-controlled guerrilla force in North Korea
has reported the conduct of 2 raids between 12 and 18
September. In a raid on a North Korean Arag cavalry
garrison, the force claimed the killing of 40 men and
13 horses. It suffered the loss of 5 killed, 1 captured,
and 2 missing. In the other raid9 the force claimed the
destruction of 3.trucks and the c'apture of 600.pounds of
rice. Another CIA-controlled guerrilla force has reported
the rescue of an.ROK Army Captain who had been held prisoner
since 12 February.
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