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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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,14 Sept.- 8:30 AM, 15 Sept.
CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
030 Cont'd.
The French Secret Service advised OSO Paris that Dr.
Danios Morali, head of its psychological technical
service, wants to visit the U.S. to study CIA methods
of personnel selection and psychological aspects of
security, including use of the "lie detector".
Brigadier Gambier-Parry, Director of Communications for
the British Secret Service and Foreign Office, will visit
Canada and the U.S. in late October. OSO London reports
that he would like to meet the Director of Communications
and other CIA officials in Washington.
OPC
10 members of a CIA-controlled guerrilla.warfare team in
North Korea attacked the Chonnam mine at.Kwasan on 28 August.
They claim destruction of a laboratory machinery shed and
report 4 mine guards killed, 3 wounded and 3 taken prisoner.
The team's base was attacked by 27 men between 2 and b
September. 2 of the enemy were killed and 3 wounded. The
team suffered no losses. In another operation, the team
has claimed the destruction of a high tension cable and a
railroad bridge in its area. The Air Force has been
requested to confirm this claim.
Another CIA-controlled North Korean guerrilla warfare
team has radioed that its leader and 1 other member were
killed and 3 wounded in a fight with enemy forces between
4 and 7 September.
7 CIA-controlled Korean guerrillas based on Hoe-do Island
attacked a ferry steamer off Yongampo on -6 September,
killing 3 North Korean soldiers and capturing one of the
leaders of the local Fatherland Defense Committee.
(CONTINUED) COPY # 5OF 5.
-- TOP SECR ET SEP 14 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.