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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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
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.