REPORT FOR WEEK 24-30 JULY 1952

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP55-00011A000100020140-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 140
• Publication Date: July 31, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memoranda 1.WJ STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Deputy Director of Training (General) DATE: 'l July 1952
FROM : Acting Chief, Orientation. & Briefing Division
SUBJECT: Report for Week 24-30 July 1952
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beer a group of five or six high-level people
sibzlity of staging a special orientation course in earl v
2. discussed with this Division the pos- 25X1
1. At the request of the Director of Training, a special
briefing was given to on Friday, 2l. July.
One item of interest: plans to write a report making
certain recommendations relative to overseas installations. One
recommendation that he plans to make is that a program such as
we give at our Indoctrination Course and in our VIP briefings be
given to those overseas personnel who never get the benefit of
such training. As he put it: "If we cantt bring them to this
program, then perhaps we can bring the program to them."
who will be CIA consultants. After discussing the matter
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with the Director of Training, suggested that, for the
first phase of the orientation, the consultants attend the Agency
Intelligence Indoctrination Course and that, for the next three
half-days, the program follow an informal format consisting of
presentations by key people in the Agency, seminars, and possibly
recorded play-backs of some of the best presentations given at
previous Agency Orientation Courses.
3. At the request of of the DCI' s Office, an ex- 25X1
tensive special briefing was given on Tuesday, 29 July, to 25X1
the DCI's new Cable Secretary. 25X1
4. The new Biweekly Presentations Program will be launched
next Wednesday, anel the proceedings will be recorded. From all
indications, the idea of such a program has met with an enthu-
siastic response in the Onera.ting Offices. There will be no
problem in filling the quotas.
5. of Personnel Relations Division sought25X1
out our views on a new personnel orientation progr W lc they
want to launch. The program would consist in briefing all new
EOD's on personnel matters of general interest, viz., pay and
promotion policy, Credit Union, hospitalization insurance, etc.
The briefing would be given in an informal fashion on the actual 25X1
BCD date. F____-] wanted to assure us that there would be no
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duplication of our efforts in. the Weekly Indoctrination Course.
He was told that his plan met with the approval of this Division,
that there was obviously no conflict in subject matter, and that,
as long as there was no question of trying to give this two-hour
briefing on the same day as we give our Indoctrination, there
would be no conflict of time.
6. The remarks of General Smith at the last orientation
Course have been transcribed and copies are being sent to the
Director of Training and the Deputy Director of Training (General).
7. came in this week to hear a recording of
the talk he gave at the last Orientation Course.
Acting Chief
Orientation and Briefing Division
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