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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 QC
DIRECTOR'S LOG
kTE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 17Oct.- 8:30 AM, 18 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
In reply to our request, Mr. Gordon Dean has designated DD/P
Commander F. J. Pinney, Jr., to discuss with Cli representatives
the development or adaptation of atomic weapons and ra dolo iical
warfare materials
00
The Radio Free Europe representative in ;Trieste is reportedly
planning to send a locally-recruited RFE employee to Belgrade
on 25 October to explore the possibilities of interrogating
refugees and obtaining information of IWE interest. 080 is
advising FE through OPC that such an approach in Belgrade
at this time would prejudice overall CIA! interests in
Jugoslavia.
Captain L. H. Patterson, Jr., Psychological z:arfare Branch,
Department of the Army, contacted the Executive. Officer, SSU,
on 15 October to request a microfilm copy of a roster of all
Army officers assigned to OSS. He was advised that such a
list was unavailable.
OPC
A resupply and infiltration operation in support of an agent
team in the Kukes area of northern Albania was successfully
completed on the night of 15/16 October. Two men, one of
whom is a W/T operator, were dropped. Prior to this operation,
communications with this team have. been by means of, letters
with secret writing forwarded via Yugoslavia.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY #L OF 5- OCT 17 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.