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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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
SECURITYINFORMATION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, ov*- 8:30 AM,7 Nov. - - - -
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT. - ACTION
OSO
OSO representatives briefed Brigadier General Harmony, Chief .
of the U.S. Military Mission to Yugoslavia, on the 030
mission and interest in Yugoslavia, including the current
effort toestabli'sh liaison with the UDB. General Harmony
agreed that such liaison.can best be brought about by
confining it to the CIA channel and advised that he intends,
in the interest of his own mission, to avoid any connection
with clandestine intelligence and to attach no intelligence
officers to his staff.
A section headed by Colonel Tufts has been set up under the
Plans and Operations Staff of SHAPE to administer SHAPE
affairs which involve the Clandestine Committee "of the U.S.,
British, and French Intelligence Service's. The section
operates under the direct command of 1U.S. General Bowen,
Deputy to French General Bodet.
Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry, Director of Communications
for the British Secret Service and the Foreign Office,
is now in Washington. and will call on CIA officials.
*00
Two young Hungarian Air Force sergeants who flew a training
plane into Western Germany last February have reached the
United States from the Defector Reception Center (Germany).
They will be held here temporarily en route to .Honduras,
where Contact Division has arranged for them to worlk for
the subsidiary of an American company.
OPC
A meeting has been in progress since 2 November-between
representatives of the Great Russian Emigre grog1ps and
TOP SECRET ONTINUED) COPY # OF 5. NOV 6 1951
SECURITYIhI JhMATifl

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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.