CATALOG OF COURSES

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• Publication Date: October 1, 1953
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This catalog includes all of the courses offered by the
Office of Training (Special) and is presented for your in-
formation in order that you may review the general content and
objectives of these courses.
It may also be of value when consulted by those who are
planning training for personnel under their jurisdiction.
A list of courses offered by the Office of Training
(General) will be presented at a later date.
TTEW BAIRD
Director of Training
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CATALOG OF COURSES
OF THE
OFFICE OF TRAINING
A rdsunA of the program of current instruction and instructional
capabilities of the Office of Training; (Special) is provided on the
following pages.
Each course listed in the Table of Contents is treated as follows:
1. Each course is identified by a number to facilitate
reference to related courses.
2. Each course is identified by its official title.
3. Where applicable, the length of each course is stated.
4. The prerequisites for each course are stated. The basic
prerequisite for each course is TOP SECRET clearance.
5. The location of the course is given. Courses not con-
ducted in the Headquarters area are designated by "covert training
site." Students electing any of these courses should begin
immediately to consider their departure from the Headquarters area
and the ramifications of that departure.
6. The minimum and maximum enrollment for each course is
listed. Minimum enrollment represents the number of students
reguired for the rp esentation g a course.
7. The general content of each course is described.
A five-month schedule of TR(S) courses is appended. New or re-
vised schedules will be forwarded accordingly.
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BAS IC TRAINING A3OGRAM
The Basic Training Program is composed of three phases:
Basic Intelligence Course
(Clandestine Services) Introduction and Orientation
Phase II Basic Tradecraft
Phase III Staff Officer Training
Cases exist in which the entire program will not be taken
consecutively. Information pertaining to these cases is available
upon request. Otherwise, BIC(CS) will be followed by Phase II and
Phase II, by Phase III. In all cases the previous Phase will be a
prerequisite for the succeeding one.
The program is designed to provide a logical sequence in the
fundamental training for clandestine activity. The complete program
is a prerequisite for further work in Advanced and Specialized
Training.
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BASIC INTELLLGENCE COURSE f CLANDESTINE SERV CES
Length - Three weeks
Prerequisites TOP SECRET clearance
Enrollment 10 to 125 students
Location Headquarters area
This course is intended primarily for the new employee of this
organization. It identifies the covert activity in which this
government engages and the major ideological. factors necessitating
such activity. Communist ideology, history, methods., and tactics
occupy a week of instruction.
The course identifies the part played by covert activity in the
overall field of foreign relations and defense, with reference to the
security commitments of this country and her allies. The lectures
sketch the relationship of this organization to the national intelli-
gence effort, and they acquaint students with the Headquarters
organization. Guest lecturers from the various operating components
explain the processing of intelligence from its collection to its
ultimate use.
With the purpose of orienting, indoctrinating, and motivating
new personnel, the course examines intelligence principles and
methods and the nature of clandestine activities. Special attention
is given to the necessity for mental preparation and training. A
"county fair" exhibit familiarizes the student with-the products of
the' intelligence-gathering activity and provides an opportunity to
observe new information, finished reports, and various interim
stages of this activity. Strategic area-surveys of six key areas
help the student to understand the global aspect of intelligence.
The course also includes fi]ans, examinations, and seminars on
the various phases of instruction.
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PHASE II
Length
Five weeks
Prerequisites
1?
TOP SECRET clearance
2?
BIC(CS) or its equivalent
in Field or Headquarters
experience
Enrollment
10 to 75 students
Location
Covert training site
The purpose of this phase is to give the student a fundamental
understanding of those processes, skills, and techniques which are
considered common to all clandestine activity, regardless of its
purpose and character, and which are summed up in the word "trade-
craft."
After an analysis of the nature and elements of clandestine
activity as practiced by individuals and groups, principles of
organization are examined, with particular emphasis on concepts of
compartmentation and cover. Principles, methods, and techniques of
clandestine communications are studied. Agents and their functions
are treated at length, with detail d attention given to recruitment
and management of agents and their reporting of information. Topics
such as surveillance are-studied from a defensive point of view.
The operating methods of the opposition are kept constantly before
the student.
The course includes lectures seminars, demonstrations, films,
live problems, case studies, supplementary reading, and examinations.
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PHASE JU
Length
Three weeks
Prerequisites
.1.
TOP SECRET clearance
2.
Phase II of the Basic Training
Program or its equivalent in
Field or Headquarters experience
Enrollment
5 to 50 students
Location
Covert training site
The purpose of this phase is to acquaint the student with the
structure and with the functional responsibilities of its
major components. He also examines the operational responsibilities
of its individuals. Included in this phase are specific topics
under the general headings of: Functional Responsibilities of Organi-
zational Components; Placement of Staff Personnel Abroad; Basic Plan
and Project Procedure; Security and Control of Operations; Special
Problem in the Conduct of Operations; Information Reporting.
Personnel with varied experience, both Field and Headquarters,
conduct discussions of operations of this organization which illu-
strate points discussed during the course. Case histories,, films.,
and seminars also are included.
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ADMIS7R4TI,gg TRAINING
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The Office of Training (Special) offers two separate courses
in Administration, one intended primarily for clerical employees
and administrative assistants, and one designed for the training
of Administrative Staff and Support Staff personnel. The latter
includes one week's study of basic; tradecraft to obviate the
necessity for students' taking the) more intensified study in
Phase II of the Basic Training Program.
The usual procedure is for Administrative Staff personnel
to take the BIC(CS) and follow it with the Administrative Support
Course. base #Vg o ses taken cons tute the Basic
Tntelliuence urse et heBIC -sup).
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ADAM IS7RATION COURSE
Length Two weeks
Prerequisites TOP SECRET clearance
Enrollment 10 to 50 students
Location Headquarters area
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The purpose of this course is to indoctrinate KUFIRE, KUGOWN,
clerical personnel with the basic techniques and pro-
cedures for administrative support of their Staffs in Headquarters
and in overseas establishments. Concomitantly, the student is
acquainted with the functional organization of the principal Staff
elements of this organization.
Lectures examine the organization, mission, and functions of
KUF]RE, KUGOWN, and orient the student toward thinking
in operational terms. Defensive security is stressed, particularly
with regard to its application to the administrative elements of a
clandestine organization.
Administrative regulations and procedures are analyzed in
detail, demonstrated, and applied to hypothetical cases. Students
receive comprehensive problems in: dispatch, pouch, and cable pro-
cedures; foreign and domestic travel; property accounting; time and
leave; and the maintenance of field station files and agent records.
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ADMINI TRATIVE SUPPORT
Length Three weeks
Prerequisites
I. TOP SECRET clearance
2.. B IC (CS) or its equivalent in
Field or Headquarters experience
Enrollment 10 to 50 students
Location Heiadquartera area
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This course provides a basic knowledge of the problem of admin-
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The course familiarizes students with an understanding of the
inter-relationships between operating functions and administrative
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The lectures are supplemented by case histories and practical
work in thaiutilization of administrative skills. Films, seminars,
and field problems are also used.
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COMMUNIST PARTY OPERATIONSIONS
Length
Prerequisites
L. TOP SECRET clearance
Basic Training Program or
its equivalent in Field or
Headquarters experience
3. Successful completion of
one other course of Advanced
Training
6 to 20 students
Location Headquarters area
This course provides staff personnel with background and under-
standing of the World Communist Movement which will be adequate for
their planning and conducting effective operations against this
movement. Throughout the course, emphasis is given to the generally
valid aspects of Party policy, which are tactics, administration,
organization, and action.
The lectures and seminars give the student a basic orientation
to Communism. Essentials of the ideology, its basic terminology,
and the current operational objectives of the staff components all
conduce toward relating the study of Communism to the needs of this
organization. The course analyzes the structure and function of
Party organs, from the development of cadres, through propaganda and
finance, to a special study of the aspects of Communist clandestine
operations, such as military, intelligence, and the underground.
These Party operations and tactics are analyzed to provide background
for a detailed study of the penetration and/or infiltration of a
Communist Party.
Films are shown to illustrate the material covered in lectures
and discussions.
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OPERATIONAL SECS
Length Two weeks
Prerequisites
I. TOP SECRET clearance
2. Prior Field or Headquarters
experience at a supervisory
level
:3. Grade of GS-12 or higher
Enrollment i5 to 12 students
Location :headquarters area
This course is designed for (3enior staff officers only. The
lectures and seminars are based on security control problems, the
character of Communist and Western security services, and the
general countermeasures which may be taken as security precautions
in the conduct of an operation. The course is geared to that level
of Headquarters case and staff officers which will be able to main-
tain ultimate control and assume ultimate responsibility for
operations conducted within its pirview.
Emphasis is given to the place of, and the need for, operational
security in any clandestine service and the support and protection
functions in counterespionage. Students approach security control
problems which may arise from three points of view: that of the
agent personnel and their operational activity; that of support, sub-
sidy, and joint operations; and that of operational bases.
The lectures present a detailed analysis of the current active
opposition to this organization's operations, the Soviet and Satellite
Security Services. The student examines the characteristic techniques
and interests of the Western services as they are likely to affect
this organization's operations.
After a two-day seminar on case histories, which includes
examination of the handling of sur3pected and proved compromises, the
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class analyzes the general countermeasures which may be taken.
These include overt investigative facilities, utilization of in-
formant operations, and the exploitation of local security groups.
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REPORTS
length
One week
Prerequisites
1.
TOP SECRET clearance
2.
Basic Training Program or
its equivalent in Field or
Headquarters experience
Enrollment
8 to 15 students
Location
Headquarters area
This course is designed for personnel whose projected assign-
ment is that of reports officer., either at Headquarters or in the
Field. The lectures emphasize the practical problems of inter-
preting and evaluating information; received from Field sources.
Students are required to edit several Field information reports and
to process reports received in Headquarters. Problems of fabricated
reports and of deception material are studied separately in lectures
and seminars.
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INSTRUCTOR TRAINING
Length
One week
Prerequisites
1.
TOP SECRET clearance
2,
Phases I and II, Basic
Training Program or their
equivalent in Field or
Headquarters experience
Enrollment 10 to 20 students
Location Headquarters area
This course introduces students to the principles and methods
of teaching and learning, including the advantages and uses of visual
and aural aids. Emphasis is placed on instructor self-improvement.
Student application includes the preparation of lesson plans
and presentation to the class of lectures or demonstrations in sub-
jects chosen by the students. Directed discussions help to point
out strong points and defects of the presentations. Methods of prepa-
ration of training aids and this organization's capabilities to supply
all types of training aids, from posters and charts, through films to
sand tables and three dimensional aids, are discussed.
In cases in which an initiating office desires that a trainee
receive instruction in any specialized type of training or presenta-
tion, TR(S) offers on-the-job tutorial training with senior instructors
from any of the formal courses herein listed.
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FIELD TRAINING
The following courses are offered outside the Headquarters
area at a covert training site. Students electing any of them
should begin immediately to consider their departure from the
Headquarters area for the length of time indicated and to con-
sider the ramifications of that departure.
Students enrolled in these courses will be notified of a
detailed briefing which they must receive before they leave the
Headquarters area.
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S PEC IIA,.LI A TRAINING
The following five courses are scheduled on a tutorial basis.
Each course represents a more detailed study of the work undertaken
in the corresponding phase in the Air Operations Staff Officers
Course. The following instruction becomes more meaningful when
considered in the light of the overall plan of the preceding course.
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