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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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
SECURITY INFORMATION. -
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 19 Nov* 8:30 AM, 20 Nov.
TE OF DATE
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
Twenty persons were arrested and a loud speaker
system set up announcing imprisonment or 6eath.
to anyone caught reading the bogus notices.
A radio contact team was successfully dropped
by a Chinese Nationalist Air Force plane on
13 Nov. in a CIA-directed operation to a
Nationalist guerrilla force located 400 miles
due West of Shanghai in Hupeh Province. The
force is operating in the border areas of
Hupeh, Honan and Anhwei Provinces.
A 167-man CIa-supported Nationalist guerrilla
force under Col. Wang Chu conducted a succssIu
raid on 13 Nov. on Feh Tou-tung, about j0 miles'-
northwest of Ta Chien in Chekiang Province.
An additional 30,000 leaflets were droppedl by
Nationalist planes over Fukien Province in a
CIA-directed operation on 7 November.
Efforts to arrange for the entry of Walter Nyi
into the Philippines have been successful.
He arrived in Manila from Taipei oh 13 Nov.
with a 6-month visa dnd an authorization from
Chiang Kai-shek to act as an advisor to the
Chinese Ambassador. The. field has been instructed
to keep Nyi under observation in Manila to detendine
if he. can be of further use to CIA despite his
serious breaches of security. A decision as to
his ultimate disposal will be based upon field
observation
(CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. NOV 19 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.