WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT-PERIOD-24-30 JULY 1953

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP55-00166A000200050071-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: July 30, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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30 July 1953
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Training (General)
FROM : Chief, Plans & Policy Staff
SUBJECT : Weekly Activities Report -- Period -- 24-30 July 1953
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1. Project 52-19, Rs sion of CIA Re atio
advises that informal coordination of this regulation
with I and SO should be completed this week. Regulation will
then be coordinated with0 and with the DDraining
Committee before transmission to front office for final approval.
2. Project 52-37, Collection Manual. of 00/C visited
S/PP on 23 July and spent about an hour and a half examining material
prepared thus far and borrowed a 24-page section for further
study. He stated a desire to get several copies of the finished
manual for in-service training purposes in 00, expecially of
operational personnel. Writing continues, but very intermittently.
3. Project 51-10, Intermediate Intelligence Course. Memo dispatched
on 22 July to each of the DDI training officers transmitting the
ITD appraisals of Scientific Intelligence Course. This information
was provided in order to assist the DDI training officers in
determining requirements for similar specialized intermediate level
intelligence courses to meet specialized needs of their respective
offices. In addition, Training Liaison Officers were asked to
establish requirements for enrollment in the next offering of the
Scientific Intelligence Course which is scheduled for late
September or early October.
4. Project 52-51, Registrar Reporting. This project, dormant since
S January 1953, has been revived as a result of recent informal
requests by D/TR(G) for suggestions concerning the preparation of
more informative weekly reports of training enrollments. With a
view to both this objective and the feasibility of producing such
a report, a rough outline was prepared and informally presented
to D/TR(G). At his request, this was used as a basis for
conference with the Registrar on 29 July. A memorandum for the
record is being prepared.
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5. Project 53-6, CIA Regulation on Management Trainig. Draft of
25X1 regulation on Management Training in process in coordination
with
6. Project 53-13, G ossa of Intelligence T-,logy. Memorandum
from D/TR to chairman, DD /P Training Committee has been completed,
signed, and sent, It officially conveys twenty copies each of
the First Tentative Edition of the Glossary, a sample memorandum.
for proposing improvements, and a foreword suitable for an Agency
Handbook. All this is in the interest of getting the Committee's
reaction to general dissemination.
7. Project 53-25, 1 Budget. Budget narrative for TR(G) completed,
25X1 approved by D/TR and DD/TR(G). Original and five copies transmitted
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25X1 8. Project 52-68, Active Duty Mobilization. Trainin g,_of G-2 Designees
25X1 with CIA Transferred to SS OTR On~3 August 1953
IISAR, is scheduled to report to the Agency for a fifteen-
day active duty tour. Arrangements have been made for him to
attend the CIA Orientation Course beginning 4 August, the CIA
STATSPEC Indoctrination Course on the afternoon of 6 August. and
25X1 assignment for the remaining period of his tour in
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9. Project 53-35, Career Development Sly. At a meeting conducted
by the Executive Secretary of the CIA Career Service Board on 28 July,
it was learned that the Director of Central Intelligence has approved
recommendations of the CIA Career Service Board to establish fifty
Career Development Slots for the purpose of permitting individual
offices to fill vacancies created by Career Development actions such
as training and duty rotation assignments of six months duration
or longer. The Office of the Comptroller was requested to develop
a set fiscal plan in order that adequate .01 funds could be
systematically budgeted in order that the Career Development Slot
Policy could be put into effect. It is understood that the
Comptroller is recommending that all fifty slots be administered
by the Office of Training. The CIA Career Service Board would in
each case authorize the encumbrance of such a slot upon stated
evidence that such encumbrance was consistent with the Career
Development Program of the Agency. Action is being taken concurrently
to provide for the allotment of three Career Development Slots so
25X1 that representatives of ORR, OCI, and 061 can participate in Training
Project0 A memorandum is being prepared for the signature
of the Director of Training supporting requests of these individual
offices for the allotment of such Slots.
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10. Project 53-38, Jackson Committee Re^ ort. The subject of the
of the PM Staff advised that it was
view that the PM Staff should make specific
recommendations .for training recommendations into
effect, and that s preparing a staff study on this
subject which would be coordinated with OTR prior to transmittal
to DD/P.
U. Project 53-39, TR(S) and TR(G) Course Content. Revision of
TRIG) section of catalogue of courses offered by OTR (for trans-
25X1 mission to the field) approved by D/TR and DD/TR(G) and transmitted
to 28 July.
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25X1 12. Project 53-42, 0/TR Pub?ication Committee, On 24 July?
and _-met with a group convened in the office of Chief, TAB,
on the initiative of D/TR(G). Many types of publications produced
25X1 in 0/TR were examined, and several categories were tentatively
recognized, U on receiving a copy of Chief TAB's report of the
meeting, drafted and presented to him a restatement of the
25X1 categories defined in the report. Samples of all material
prepared in ITD were procured by S/PP. Subsequently D/TR
established an O/TR Publications Committee and named as
one of its members.
13. Project 53-43, I G Inspection of Y1R, S/PP has prepared an
outline of materials for OTR presentation to the IG prior to the
conduct of his inspection. S/PP now in process of obtaining and
compiling such materials, and in drafting statements to give
continuity to the 0TR presentation.
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