Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Gray”17 pages
TOP SECRET . - DIRECTOR'S LOG TE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 18 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 19 Oct. - )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT. ACTION Mr. Gordon Gray has forwarded a copy of his memorandum to Mr. Webb, which enclosed a copy of a memorandum from Mr. - DPFoster recommending that the following procedural- modifications be made in Plan TAKEOFF:: a. The Department of State be aequested to assume primary responsibility for obtaining approval as to the political feasibility and acceptability. of the leaflet drop operation. b. The preparation of the substantive themes'in the leaflets to be dropped be assigned to the-Department - of State. These recommendations have the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense. Mr. Gordon Gray has forwarded for consideration at the next Board Meeting "Suggested Fiscal Year 1953 Budget DD/A Estimate as Compared to 1952 Estimate for Psychological, Strategy Board". * DD /P Gen. Cutler and members of his staff were briefed on 18 Oct by Hunt and Hulick on the implications of NSC 86/1 as it relates to the handling and resettlement of low-level Soviet and satellite defectors.> The:program of the intelligence agencies vis-a-vis high-level defectors was reviewed and the difference in definition between "defectors" as set forth in NSCID 13 and NSC,86/l was emphasized. It was suggested that the Keisten amendment to the Mutual Security Act, which penits up to a hundred million dollars to be used for escapees from the Iron Curtain countries if the President determines that this expenditure TOP SECRET (CONTINUED) COPY # I OF 5. OCT 18 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.