CRITICAL SITUATION IN PHASES II AND IIII

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00259A000200010001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 18, 1954
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBXECT; Critical Situation, in Phases II and. III
2. Confirming slaw conversations we have had an the subject
of the overload now being carried by instructors in Phases I/ and
II/0 I should like to put on the record for your information
sei*ral 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 =Armed in the minds of the
Director of Training and of the Deputy- Director of Training.
This memorandum, therefor*, 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
farce.
b. Instructors would like vary much to have the opportu-
nits. while on duty in the Office of Training to take other
OTR courses; that opportunity now does not exist for them.
e. A few instructors have eressed the
self-improvement courses
This is particularly importantcareers
tors who do not yet possess college degrees; it
important to those ambitious officers who desire to
themselves to the height of their respective oapabilities.
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 to and me over
their failure to carry out their paternal responsibilities.
e. Al]. instructors are now experiencing difficulties in
heir relationships with their wives. In one or two instances
this situation has reached serious proportions.
I. reported on Saturday,
16 October 19540 that unless *relief were in sight," be
weed find it necessary Ig.musalatlaus from this assignment
and return to the Army. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIhas been handled
with great care while on duty here and has been assigned only
to Phase U. 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. Re eeldom sees his
children or his wife, 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 coarse currently being presented. While
that is true, they have nevertheless carried on as much improve-
ment as possible.
h. The willingness of a few instructors to b.c
officers within the Office of Training has been serious
reduced by the excessive loads they have been asked to carry.
4. Serious efforts have been made to reduce the work of Instruc-
tors in both Phase II and in Phase II/. 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 greeter degree than was previously the ease.
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 /II all instructors in
on all seminars. We presented Caaea and 25X1A
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eszly January an ve hope that
eady at that time. However, as fares we kncer,
cers tram DD/P ready to joir this staff. In
ction both rd I feel that we must obtain
of qualified operational personnel to teach in these
car?es srd that it would be a grave istake to reduce the require-
ments 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.
6. We have also attempted to redace the load on instructors
by naming four officers from the instructional staff to c1rrr the
administrative load these officers are
all of whom have accepted further duties
in good spirit.
7* Ten have succeeded
break of one week nbetween
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way that these officers can
we are seriously concerned about
of accepting students for tutoria
operational assignments abroad, a
value in the past to DD/P.
8. The following officer
on in the near future
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Toil have
e in such a
11, gowever
of our capabilities
instruction for very important
eervice which has been of great
ch now ext BtS and which iii becove iucrea8ingly serious
next few monthe. A reserve of should be on
here is none. involuntary extension, in my opinion,
which should not be adopted. This problem indicates
scale drive must be waged to meet our present and future
requirements. The fact that new instructors coming on
with us require a period of training is a fact which goes
saying. Therefore, we call this broader situation to your
.ttenthm because it affects not only the personnel now assigned to
Phases I/ and III, but also affects our ability to recast the roles
of other instructors now anal
seriously reduce the etaffs of
Field Activities in order to
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9. That you are aware of this situation is
no t I have felt that it might be of assistance to you to have
all these facts in writing in one memorandum. T fee
real solution lies in our capacity to have DD/P assign ofi
to the Office of Training. Local readjustments can be made witbi
the Office of Training but those readjustments cannot solve our
long-range problem to any significant degree. I should like to
emphasise that the situation in Phase-II and XII has now reached
the critical stage.
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