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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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, 11 Sept.- 8:30 AM,12 Sept.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
050 (Con't)
FBI representatives discussed FBI interest in U.S. outlets
of the ZAKO paper mill in Austria. The FBI will make an
effort to obtain information on ZAKO sub-sources overseas
through Tiber Eckhardt, FBI contact in the U.S.
Colonel Bobert A. Schow told Mr. Thayer in Paris that "his
chiefs are very well satisfied" with summary reports of
current intelligence which OS9 submits to him through
the Paris Station for Generals Eisenhower and Oruenther.
Four Zipper officers, the second group to visit the U.S.,
arrived in New York on 9 September. They will be escorted
on a trip to the West Coast, returning to Washington
on 23 September.
OPC
For breaches of security and publicized marital difficulties,
Philip Chadwick, a staff agent handling communications at
CIA's Saipan paramilitary training base, has been ordered
to return to Washington.-
A contract was signed yesterday with A.D., Ring & Co., a
radio engineering concern, for the rehabilitation of a
radio transmitter off Formosa which will be used to beamt
propaganda broadcasts to Red China.
The Chinese Nationalist Air Force has dropped 6,000 leaflets
in a CIA-directed operation over Chang Chou on the Chinese
Mainland. A Nationalist guerrilla contact team in the
vicinity has reported the local population "very excited"
by the drop.
On 9 September, a successful two-way radio contact was
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED). COPY # OF 5- SEP 111951

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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.