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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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,21 Nov. - 8:30 AM,22 Nov.
ATE OF DATE
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
00
The Defector Reception Center (Germany) received on OSO is conducting prelimin-
19 Nov. a Soviet captain (a dental technician) who ary interrogation to deter-
defected in Berlin on 14 November. mine the defector's bona- .
fides. When these are
established, 00 will circulate
a request for requirements to
MISCELLANEOUS all IAC Agencies.
JIG has requested CIA participation in a briefing iD/SI
for Mr. Gray and key members of the PSB staffs
covering "Over-all soviet and Satellit~ Military
Capabilities". Our contribution will be "Soviet
Capability in the Field of Atomic Energy."
In. reply to our letter; the Comptroller General states DD/A
that there is legal objection to the payment toA
employees of CIA of retroactive increases in compensa-
tion equivalent to those authorized by PL 201.
The Bureau of the Budget has requested our comments DD/A
on a proposed Executive Order "Amending Regulations Colonel Edwards
Relating.to the Safeguarding of Vessels Harbors,
Ports and Waterfront Facilities of the United States".
Don Gonzales of the United Press has been asked to do
a feature story on CIA. He will call on Col. Hansen
at 9:30 Friday, November .23, for a preliminary inter-
view. In outlining his idea he spoke a eecifically of
the Dalles speech in New England and indicated he would
prefer to use that as a footing for hisUP article.
TOP SECRET __, o 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.