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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
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 18 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 19 Oct.
ICUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION
DD/P (Cont'd)
would contribute to the objectives of NATO and the
security of the U. S., might provide funds for a
resettlement program for refugees.. U. S. psychological
warfare activities have suffered and may continue to do
so in the future if refugees are not, better handled.
The interest of the POCC, G-3, DP Ccmmission, and the
UNA/R Division of State were discussed and recognized.
Gen. Cutler asked his staff to prepare a memo which
could be submitted to the Board outlining the problem
and requesting approval for.the PSB to study the matter
further and determine which agency, if any, should be
given the responsibility for-this welfare rmatter.
OSO
OSO/Brussels has forwarded microfilm copi s of Belgian .
State Security agent dossiers and informant lists. The
opportunity to reproduce these records arose when State
Security placed them in OSO hands for safekeeping during
the recent official investigation of its Charleroi office.
Robert N. Carew-Hunt, Counterespionage and Communism Section,
British Secret Ser-ice, has discussed with OSO officers the
extent to which each Service has covered Soviet and Inter-
national Communism. An exchange of studies in this field
has been agreed to.
OPC
A leaflet drop of 25,000 news bulletins was made on
12 October on the city.of Tung-An, in :the Fukien Province.
At a Press Conference 14 October the T.ranian .Chief of
Police, General Mosayeni, described the ,discovery, in Isfahan,
TOP SECRET (CONTINULD) COPY # _ OF 5. OCT 1 R 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.