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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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 -? L
W SECURITY INFORMATION .
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM,
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM To SUBJECT ACTION
O05
Immediate deployment of the 560th Air Resupply and Since the above was
Communications Wing as scheduled to Wheelus Field in ascertained unofficially
Libya, where it was to have been used in support of an intensive effort is
V CIA operations, has been deferred, if not cancelled being made to determine
outright, apparently as a result of action taken on officially the facts of
19 Nov. by the Secy of State on a strong British the matter
protest against the movement to Libya-at this time.
Serious Interference with CIA plans will result.
Quoting a reliable Chinese, the Department of State
has reported that Robert W. McCann, a US businessman
arrested in Tientsin by Chinese Communist authorities,
is undergoing severe and intensive int rogation aimed
at. establishing his involvement in espionagerin addition
to their clear case against him on a charge of ;unauthorized
export of capital. McCann, a covert 00, agent who was in-
volved in certain Tientsin operations, is resisting interro-
gation, but the informant believes he may crack under the
pressure. He knows the identities of three CIA officers.
A Hungarian agent of French Security employed at US Army =SO/Paris has been
headquarters in -Verdun has reported his recruitment by an authorized to accept
attache of the Hungarian Legation in Paris to secure US the French Security
military documents for delivery to a clandestine courier. proposal to exploit
the case jointly with
the participation of
U.S. CIC.
(CONTINUED)
- TOP SECRET
NOV 21 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.