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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. 12 …ference which begins on 10 September. Mr. Gray has -circulated to the members of the Board…
  • p. 31 …Gordon Gray has requested DCI recommendation on DD/P the desirability of placing on the agenda…
  • p. 45 …Gordon Gray has forwarded for appropriate action by CIA DD/P Plan TAKEOFF which has been…
  • p. 71 …Gordon Gray's memorandum on planning with respect to the Far East, he has been informed…
  • p. 76 …Gordon Gray has requested DCI approval of "HUNMER", a Noted by Mr. Dulles "Psychological Operations Plan…
  • p. 82 …At the request.of Mr. Lay, Mr. Gray has reviewed a draft Mr. Dulles of parts…
  • p. 96 …Gordon Gray has forwarded a copy of his memorandum to Mr. Webb, which enclosed a copy…
  • p. 132 …ISCELLANEUS - Gordon Gray has furnished. DCI and D/DC1 with copies of a paper, prepared by…
  • p. 137 …Carl Gray, OPC activities and, .in particular, to act as titular head of Chief, Veterans OPC…
  • p. 164 …in a briefing iD/SI for Mr. Gray and key members of the PSB staffs covering…
  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn. - Gordon Gray has requested that PSB be allotted one DD…
  • p. 213 …Gordon Gray has requested special intelligende clearance for his Deputy, Mr. Tracy Barnes. AD/CI NSC…
  • p. 223 …Gordon Gray has requested the establishment of one - Senior Assistant (GS-17) with Assistant Director rank…
  • p. 227 …Gordon Gray has requested that we nake the necessary arrangements to permit, .the mp n sation…
  • p. 230 …on theSpecial Committee o. s. dest, --- Mr. Gray states that he-had sat up a briefing…
  • p. 232 …Gordon Gray DCI In a letter to DCI, tr, Gray suggests tua8 a Fepre D Pfor…
  • p. 233 …Gordon Gray DCI Mr. Gray has furnished DCI with 4SeisoID acknowle ei t excerpts from the…
TOP SECRET -
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM E RITY TION6 Nov.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
Thomas Lanphier, referred to CIA by Jimipy Lay, talked with DD/P advised.
- Mr. Dulles and Col. Muller on 2.November. Lanphier, acting Col. J. C.King
as a spokesman for Unitad Fruit Co. andElectric Bondand. will have
Share Co. offered the use of the facilities and personnel furter dis-
of these organizations to assist CIA in any textint or con- cussions with
templated operations to combat Communism in Guatemala. Lanphier.
OPC
A CIA agent sent to Marshall Tito's recent International
Conference for Peace in Zagreb with specific instructions
to combat the expected neutralist line successfully did
so in a speech reported on 25 October in the NEW YORK TIMES
and the New York and Paris editions of the NEW YOI HERALD
TRIBUNE. In the course of the conference, the agent was
appointed to the Resolutions Committee where he played a
critical role in a small drafting group. He was also elected
to the Executive Board of seven within the Continuation
Committee.
Three men of a five-man CIA agent team 'in Albania have returned
to Greece through Yugoslavia. Radio Tirana had reported
the annihilation of 13 U.S, agents in Albania. On the basis
of that report, it was believed that the three-man team
which has just returned to Greece had been wiped out. The
agents say they were separated from the other two members
of the team during a fire-fight. Another team in Albania
also has been contacted by radio but the message they
sent was undecipherable.
A 1h0-ton Chinese supply boat enroute from Dairen to Antung
with a 13-man crew was captured 10 miles off the Manchurian.
coast on 28 October by the CIA-controlled Korean fishing.
vessel SEA 14DLF.
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # L OF 5. NOV .51951

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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.