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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…
:r TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 6 Sept. - 8:30 AM, 7 Sept-
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Con't)
CIA medical officials report that Robert Staton, the CIA agent
returned from Formosa after showing signs of mental depression
following a jeep accident, is mentally unbalanced and
emotionally immature, and has an inferiority complex. The
medical officials state, however, that he could possibly prove
useful in a training assignment in the U..S. Staton is being
granted 30 days leave. During this period, possibilities for
a new assignment will be carefully explored.
Another CIA-directed leaflet drop has been made over Fukien
province on the Chinese Mainland, bringing to 70,000 the
number of leaflets dropped in the seven missions flown-by
Nationalist aircraft to date.
Dimitri A. DLmitrov, the Bulgarian agent who threatened to
expose CIA operations directed against Bulgaria from Greece
and thus became a disposal case, has arrived in Panama where
he will be detained.indefinitely in. an Army hospital.
COPY # ( OF 5. SEP 61951
TOP SECRET

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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.