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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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…
- 0CI
TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM,11 Oct. - 8:30 AM,12 Oct.
)CUMENT . RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
Headquarters has authorized dGR Uto drop -2 guerrilla
contact teams into central Chekiang Province on 10 Oct.
and to send 3 Americans on the plane to act as jumpmasters.
Urged on by a CIA-controlled agent, antiComuunist teachers
formed an organization in Teheran on 4 Oct. to fight Tudeh
infiltration of Iranian schools.. The higher normal college,
- which has already been seriously penetrated by the Tudeh,
will be one of the principal targets of the new group.
Radio Tirana has announced the trial of l4 captured spies
including 2 allegedly sponsored by the British, one by the
Italians, 4 by the Yugoslavs, 3 by the Greeks-and 4 by the
United States. Of these 4.American agents namied, 2.were
members of a 4-man team dropped into the.Kukes area (northern
Albania) in November 1950, while the other 2 were members of
a 4-man team which was ambushed shortly after landing near
Delvine (southern Albania) in July 1951.
FiISCELLANiOUS
Working Staff of the NATO Standing Groip Intelligence Coimittee
has adopted an estimate of the Strength and Capabilities of the
Soviet Bloc Forces to Conduct Military. Operations against NATO.
The paper will be published Friday morhing, 12 October.
Montague reports that the paper is substantially the same as
SE 16 approved by IAC 4 October.. The,'onclusions are unchanged.
Adm. Johnson, representing. the IAC, wgil ratify the paper
for the U.S. Since there is no disagreement with the IAC
version, hontague believes it unlikely that.the Admiral will
request IAC approval of the joint paper.
COPY# _ _ OF 5.
TOP SECRET -^ 1 b

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