CRITICAL SITUATION IN PHASES II AND III

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00012A000400010003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 18, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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18 October 1954
25X1 AEMORAMUM FOR: struotion School
SUBJECT: Critical Situation in Phases II and III
1. Confirming many conversations we have had on the subject
of the overload now being carried by instructors in Phases II and
III, I should like to pit on the record for your information
several of the factors which should be considered by the Director
of Training, the Deputy Director of Training, and by you in
arriving at your decision concerning the alleviation of this
situation.
2. Over the last few months I believe that our reports
concerning this problem have been confirmed in the minds of the
Director of Training and of the Deputy Director of Training.
This memorandum, therefore, will not concern itself with proof
but will assume that all of us agree that an overload exists.
3. The seriousness of this overload affects the lives of
the instructors concerned in several ways which should be called
to your attention:
a. Those officers who hold Reserve Officer commissions
find great difficulty now in keeping those commissions in
force.
b. Instructors would like very much to have the oppartu
nity while on duty in the Office of Training to take other
OTR courses; that opportunity now does not exist for theme
o. A few instructors have expressed the desire to take
self-improvement courses at a local university. This is
particularly important to the careers of those instructors
who do not yet possess college deg as; it is equally im-
portant to those ambitious officers who desire to bring
themselves to the height of their respective capabilities.
They are not now able to take these courses.
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d. Many of these instructors are the fathers of children.
They have expressed grave concern of and me over 25X1
their failure to carry out their paternal responsibilities.
e. All instructors are now experiencing difficulties in
their relationships with their wives. In one or two instances
this situation has reached serious proportions.
f. One instructor reported on Saturday, 16 October 1954,
that unless "relief were in sight," he would find it necessary
to request release from this assignment. He has been handled
with great care while on duty here and has been assigned only
to Phase II. I have carefully refrained from assigning other
duties to him. Despite that fact he has been overworking.
During the second week of Course 10, Phase II he worked almost
as many overtime hours as on-duty hours. He seldom sees his
children or his wife. His situation does not greatly differ
from that of other instructors.
g. Improvements which should be made in both Phases II
and III cannot now be made because Instructors are too heavily
concerned with the course currently being presented. While
that is true, they have nevertheless carried on as much im-
provemant as possible.
h. The willingness of a few instructors to become career
officers within the Office of Training has been seriously re-
duced by the excessive loads they have been asked to carry.
4. Serious efforts have been made to reduce the work of in-
structors in both Phase II and in Phase III. In Phase II we have
knocked out the old "Recruitment Paper.". We have materially reduced
the scope of the old "Selection Paper." We have attempted to adopt
a stream-lined grading system, We have called upon instructors
from other courses to a much greater degree than was previously the
case. At the same time, however, instructors have been required to
become familiar with the content of Phase III. For instance, during
the last running of Phase III all instruatora were ^e aired to sit 25X1
in on all seminars. We presented Cases and
min nine seminars instead of in four seminars.
5. During the last few months we have lost the services of
five instructor personnel and we are about to lose the services of
two more. During this same period we have only added three. How-
ever, as far as we know, there are no officers from DD/P ready to
join this staff. In this connection both and I feel
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that we must obtain the services of qualified operational personnel
to teach in these courses and that It would be a grave M stake to
reduce the requirements for becoming an instructor in these key
courses by accepting the services of non-experienced personnel. It
seems to us that there should be enough officers available within
DD/P to fill our projected Table of Organization. For instance, if
each Division furnished two experienced operational officers our
needs would be met.
b. We have also attempted to reduce the load on instructors
by naming four officers from the instructional staff to carry the
administrative load, all of whom have accepted further duties in
good spirit.
7. You have succeeded in scheduling Phases II and III with a
break of one week inbetween the running of each course. You have
succeeded in scheduling the Resistance Operations Course in such a
tray that these officers can be made available to Phase II. However,
we are seriously concerned about the reduction of our capabilities
of accepting students for tutorial instruction for very important
operational assignments abroad, a service which has been of great
value in the past to DD/P.
8. Thirteen officers are up for rotation or will be up for
rotation in the near future. This clearly illustrates a problem
which now exists and which will become increasingly serious during
the next few months. A reserve of instructors should be on hand,
but there is none. Involuntary extension, in may opinion, is a
policy which should not be adopted. This problem indicates that
a full scale drive must be waged to meet our present and future
personnel requirements. The fact that new inatructorq coming on
hard with us require a period of training is a fact which goes
without saying. Therefore, we call this broader situation to your
attention because it affects not only the personnel now assigned to
Phases II and III, but also affects our ability to recast the roles
of other instructors now assigned to other courses. We cannot
seriously reduce the staffs of Res~stance Operations and Clandestine
Mold Activities in order to meet the requirements of Phases II and
III.
9. That you are aware of this situation is fully known to
me but I have. felt that it might be of assistance to you to have
all. these facts in writing in one memorandum. I feel that the
real solution Iles In a= capacity. to have DD/P assign officers
to the Office of Training. Local readjustments can be made within
the Office of `raining but those readjustments cannot solve our
l.o range . problem to any significant degree. I should like to
emphasize that the situation in Phases II and III has now reached
the critical stage.
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