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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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,13 Nov. - 8:30 AM,14 Nov.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
Training
Arrangements have been completed to cnduct. beginning
Monday, 12 November, short-term training programs for
military personnel assigned to CIA but awaiting full
clearance. Entrance dates for these groups will be
every three weeks. The training period will be 3 weeks,
or as much longer as is required for full clearance.
Training will comprise appropriate individual work
projects, attendance at lectures and discussions of
the Unclassified Training Group A, a course in Reading
Improvement, and a general reading project.
AI:Project ISOLATION (Camp Peary) Air Training Branch
personnel have inspected the site for location of air.strip
and jump ground and Maritime instructers have visited the
site to prepare requirements for Ma i1me activities.
In Project ZRCORSET (Grand Bahama island) conferences Conferences con-
were held in accordance with DD/A directive for establish- tinuing.
ment of .AEC cover, Initial AEC reaction was unfavorable.
OR
The ORR Panel of Aeronautical Consultants (consisting of
some 32 knowledgeable persons in the aircraft industry,
the air research and development field, the US air power
program, the Weapons Systems Eiraluation Group', the USAF,
the Office of Naval Intelligence, and CIA airintelligence
personnel) concluded a 4-day meeting discussing better
ways to evaluate the economic input capabilities and
vulnerabilities of the Soviet air power, The ,full pro-
ceedings were recorded, are now being studied' -and will
prove of value in focussing ORR efforts into the most
productive channels.
COi # OF 5.
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.