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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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…
T0; SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 15 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 16 Oct.
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OSO (Cont'd)
.two months of paramilitary, ,intelligence, communications,
and security training. This is the second such group to
receive covert training. in the U.S. uider this program.
Col. Daniel, Chief of Swiss Military ntelligence, has.
requested, through OSO/Bern, dIA' assiltance in securing.
the release of military equipment which the Swiss are
attempting to buy in the U.S. Col. Daniel was unsuccessful
during a U.S. visit earlier this year in, arranging release
of tanks for the Swiss Army. Recommendationson this
are being prepared for DCI.
Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi paramilitary hero, has reported
in Madrid that Soviet authorities are receiving secret
information from the offices of hacellor Adenauer, the
Allied High Commissioners, and the French High Command -
in Western Germany. Further details are promised.
Mr. V. 0. Goodell, Chief of the Indonesian-Malaya Branch
of OSO, will survey the operations of all OSO stations
in his area during the first three months of 1952 under
cover as a State Department rubber consultant.
TOP SECRET COPY # / OF 5. QCi 15'1951

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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.