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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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 INDRmNA TION
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30-AM, 13 Dec.- 8:30 AM, l4 Dec.
kTE OF DATE
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO Cont'd.
remarked that he had already formed a.high opinion of 'the
OSO representative on the basis of his reports to the State'.
Dept. made as Acting Political Officer of the Legation in
Budapest.
202 .080 Headquarters employees donated blood to a Red
Cross Blood Mobile unit on 11 and 12 Dec. An additional
134 volunteers could not be processed. -
A second issue of a small 1;-page clandestine newspaper
addressed to German youth has been prepared and litho-
printed by an OPC-directed German editorial team,.,
Some 10,000 copies of this, paper are beirdisributed .
in the Soviet Zone of Germany. --
00
- A two-hour interview between Repiesentative Frank.L.
Chelf (D., Ky.) and Maximilian Jiri Lom, who defected
in August from his post in the Czech Ministry of Foreign
Trade, was arranged by the Defector Reception Center
(Germany) on 29 Nov. 1951. Representative Chelf, member
of a House Judiciary Committee group whih had visited
DRC(G) 9 days earlier, asked permission .to discuss with
Lom the Oatis case and the probable effects of severing
U.S. diplomatic relations with Czechoslovaka. During the
confidential interview, the Congressman told Lomthat he
planned to introduce a resolution callirigifor th severance
of US-Czech diplomatic relations if Oatisi not released
promptly. . -,-
(CONTINUED)
TOP SECRET 13 DECEMBER 199. COPY # OF 7.

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