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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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 -o38d hr g.j
8:30 AM, 5 Oct.- 8 :30 AM, 6 Oct. &/g- P
)ATE OF DATE--
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
General K. W. D. Strong is scheduled to arrive in Washington
Sunday, October 7.
Mr. Gordon Gray has requested DCI approval of "HUNMER", a Noted by Mr. Dulles
"Psychological Operations Plan Incident to Korean Cease- and sent to DD/P
Fire Negotiations". for recommendation.
030
An OSO officer introduced by the New York office of Contact
Division/00 conferred with Associated Press executives on use
of the AP Bureau Chief in Vienna in connection with exploitation
of the two recent high-level Czech defectors. The Associated
Press agreed to OSO's proposal subject- to specific limitations
stated in writing.
Two experienced OSO agent teams entered Bulgaria on 27.and 29
September. One team escorted across the frontier aniT agent from
Trieste on a one-time mission to Sofia, where he will recruit
a resident agent.
OPC
A CIA-controlled guerrilla force in North Korea staged a surprise
raid on a small group of North Korean troops on 19 September,
killing sixteen, wounding eleven and capturing three. Two
guerrillas were killed and two wounded.-
Delegates from Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaya, Vietnam,
Hong Kong, and Japan gathered at a radio station near Manila
on 1 October for the first Asiatic seminar of the CIA-controlled
Far East Broadcasting Company. The seminar, designed as a counter-
measure to Commnist propaganda in the Orient, has as its theme
TOPSECRET (CONTINUED) COPY #:/_OF 5 OCT 5 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.