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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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…
TO" SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 15 Oct. 8:30 AM, 16 Oct.
'CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
The first issue of the OPC-supported, Vietnamese language,
weekly magazine- was released in Hanoi on 6 October and the
week following. The issue sold 23,000 copies at three piastres
per copy. It is a two-color magazine covering news, features,
local social problems, women's news, short stories, humor
and cartoons. It is produced entirely locally and has no
connection with USIS.
. OSO- -
As a result of slow development of the Aga Khan operation,
largely owing to the illiteracy and limited operational
potential of his followers, .the Aga has received the impression
that 00- wishes to. terminate it. 050 believes that an
attempt to evaluate the project at this time would-be
premature, since abortive efforts in.some areas have been
counterbalanced by promising development in others.
Mr. Emmet McCarthy, 050 officer who met tne..Aga in February
1951 as representative of the DCI, will therefore travel
to Paris on 16 October to clarify the :situation in discussion
with him and to brief the operation's new case officer.
Reporting the current trial of foreign. espionage agents in
Albania, Radio Tirana includes statements attributed to
the sole survivor of an OSO/Italian Naval Intelligence team
which operated in that area until it was wiped'out in
December 1950. OSO believes its participation was not
known to any member of the team. Raio Tirana ascribes
the operation to the Italians.
As a further step in the effort to establish control of
Indonesian Intelligence, eighteen Iudonesian intelligence.
officers are being brought clandestinely to the U.S. for
TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY #.- OF 5. . OG15 1951

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