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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  • p. 185 …for FY 1952 will be withdrawn.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
ATE OF DATE 8:30 AM, 18 Oct.- 8:30 AM, 19 Oct.
ICUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION
DD/P (Cont'd)
would contribute to the objectives of NATO and the
security of the U. S., might provide funds for a
resettlement program for refugees.. U. S. psychological
warfare activities have suffered and may continue to do
so in the future if refugees are not, better handled.
The interest of the POCC, G-3, DP Ccmmission, and the
UNA/R Division of State were discussed and recognized.
Gen. Cutler asked his staff to prepare a memo which
could be submitted to the Board outlining the problem
and requesting approval for.the PSB to study the matter
further and determine which agency, if any, should be
given the responsibility for-this welfare rmatter.
OSO
OSO/Brussels has forwarded microfilm copi s of Belgian .
State Security agent dossiers and informant lists. The
opportunity to reproduce these records arose when State
Security placed them in OSO hands for safekeeping during
the recent official investigation of its Charleroi office.
Robert N. Carew-Hunt, Counterespionage and Communism Section,
British Secret Ser-ice, has discussed with OSO officers the
extent to which each Service has covered Soviet and Inter-
national Communism. An exchange of studies in this field
has been agreed to.
OPC
A leaflet drop of 25,000 news bulletins was made on
12 October on the city.of Tung-An, in :the Fukien Province.
At a Press Conference 14 October the T.ranian .Chief of
Police, General Mosayeni, described the ,discovery, in Isfahan,
TOP SECRET (CONTINULD) COPY # _ OF 5. OCT 1 R 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.