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Central Intelligence Agency · 239 pages · text from the file's own layer

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. 67 …July by his elder brother offering covert US assistance to maintain the autonomy of Tibet. The…
  • p. 84 …usefulness if the Dalai Lama remains in Tibet and, accordingly, that CIA could make no commitments…
  • p. 157 …ticable, and that we should a plane be flown into Tibet for the evacuatioi simply reiterate…
  • p. 158 …Lhasa, and other Chinese his exit from Tibet must be troops believed to be stationed along…
- TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
F 8:30 AM 17 Oct. - 8:30 AM, 18 Oct.
MT OF DATE ATO
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
On the night of 10/11 October two BGMA 'JE guerrilla warfare
teams were dropped in central Chekiang Province. Two Americans
piloted the plane and another acted a jympmaster. There is
no report of radio contact with the first team (5 members)
which landed near Ming-Hai. A 'favorable radio report was
received on 11 October from the second team (j nembers) which
landed near Hsien-Chu.
OSI
has arrived for a two weeks visit in Washington.
cOP # /_ OF 5. OCT 17 1951
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.