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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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
1TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,l4 Sept.- 8:30 AM,15 Sept.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
In personal conversation with the former OSO station
chief in Manila, Ambassador Nyzron M. Cower remarked
that he intended to call on the Deputy Director within
a few days to express his continued interest in the
coordination of U.S. intelligence in the Philippines.
Acting at the suggestion of theDeputy Director on information
that the head of the Czech delegation to the San Francisco
conference might be induced to defect, OSO worked out means
of approach and reviewed the proposed operation with FBI
representatives. The FBI decided that hr. Sekaninova's
departure from the U.S. today leaves insufficient time to
mount a sound operation.
Successful W/T playback of a Bulgarian agent in Greece
during the past year seems confirmed by interrogation of
another agent recently arrived from the same headquarters.
Continued operation with 2 doubleit agents offers improved
prospects of controlling Bulgarian intelligence activities
in Northern Greece and a channel for eventual deception.
Joint U.S.-Greek playback of a Communist guerrilla agent
.based in Rumania will reinforce the operation.
In order tc strengthen its control of the Indonesian Intelligence
Service, OSO proposes to invite for conversations and orienta-
tion in Washington Raden Sumitro Kolo Paken, Governor of the Ministry
of Interior, advisor to the Indonesian National Police, and
right-hand man of the Sultan of Jogjakarta in intelligence
and security matters.
The joint OSO/OPC mission which entered Albania on 9 August
returned to Greece on 3 September after a brush with Albanian
border security forces.
(CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. SEP 14 1951
TOP SECRET

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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.