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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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 Yv CI
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM,19 Dec. - 8:30 AM,
2 0 Dec.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO
The 2 agents reported by Radio Moscow to have, been :apprehended
and executed in the Soviet Union are undoubtedly identical
with 2 OSO agents dispatched by air into the southwestern
Ukraine on 14 August. The facts so far reported by the
Soviet radio are accurate.
- After discussion wi.th DD/P, the British Segret Service
representative in Washington has agreed to "regomiend
that the British withdraw their request. for participation
in the CIA-Spanish Intelligence project to locate .and
control a secret Soviet Intelligence transiatter. operating
- in Spain. He will recommend further that information
produced by a related Soviet double-agentdcase in Spain
be passed to CIA in return for the product of the US-
Spanish project.
The Chief of Italian Intelligence reported to OBO/nome,
on'the return of a group of Italian Intelligence officers
from a staybehind training course in London, that the
training was strictly limited to general orientation
and instruction, without specific application to the
Italian situation. He added that the.British would
probably now propose a more concrete form of operational
. collaboration in staybehind matters, remarking that there
has been indication of British desire to .jdiiwith. CIA
in .a tripartite approach to a staybehind program.
Briefed by the Chief, OSO/Canal Zone, Maj. Gen. L. J.
Whitlock, commanding USARCARIB, extended his best wishes
to thd DCI together with assurance of full support to -
CIA activities in the Panamawea
(CONTINUED)
TOP SECRET 19 DECEMBER 1951 COPY;- OF 7.

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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.