WEEKLY REPORT, 25 SEPTEMBER-2 OCTOBER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00039A000300050116-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 116
• Publication Date: October 2, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum -UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
b. On Saturday 29 Septembe drove to
the State Department's training site at Front 1oya o hear a lecture
on "3wadership", given by Mr. John McCarthy of the General Electric
Company Management Training Program. Mr. McCarthy was brought in
as a guest lecturer in the management phase of the Mid-C
of in-service training given by the Department of State.
felt that the lecture offered some useful ideas, but was disappointed
in the presentation as a whole. It was very loosely organized,
and less relevant to the job situation than lectures typically
given in Basic Management and Basic Su!ervision.
the observers' judgment, quite ineffective.
DATE: 2 October 1956
1. Visits to Non-CIA presentations.
a. On Friday, 28 September at th the
Office of ian Personnel, Department of the Army
and attended a presentation on "Creative Thinking!'. This
is a new developed phase of the course on Personnel Management
for Executives. The lecture given by Milon Brown and the subsequent
demonstration were most disappointing. The presentation was, in
c. While at Front Royal on Saturday, Mr.
was questioned by both staff members and students as to the
not clear whether these expressions of interest grew out of the
students' working relations with Agency personnel in the field,
or whether the Mid-Career Course is gradually being thought of by
its sponsors as an inter-agency service. One non-State employee,
ice of CIA participants in the student group. The staff felt that
participation by a CIA employee in the last session had been of great value,
and several students, most of whom were Foreign Service Officers just
returned from overseas assignments, would have welcomed an opportunity
to exchange ideas with members of a kindred organization.-. It was
an Army officer, was in the current group.
TO : Chief, intelligence School, QTR
FROM : Chief, Management Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Report, 25 September - 2 October
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