INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL WEEKLY REPORT #38, 17 SEPTEMBER THROUGH 23 SEPTEMBER 1958

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 25, 1958
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT
25 September 1958
Intelligence School Weekly Report #38
17 SepteMber through 23 Septedber 1958
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UI ind that the =rent (Sumer l9513) issue 0
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ncorlx,rates a number of their own suggestions wade through
rx of the questionnaire circulated early this year. Briefer
rm a Wider range of subjects, wre practical articles, more
ied articles separately bound, information on authors, Short
, running titles, subtitles, and a sort of Lettere-to-the-
Edi .r section are all reader ideas which the editors have adopted*
The issue contains much that makes good reading for a wide audience-'
Gordon Stewart on the develowent of C/A.ts top generalists, a debate
on the ftuulaztental approach to overseas operations, an extraordinary
analysis of interrogation techniques, a behind-the-scenes picture of
the East-West exchange program, the story of the Polish Home Area
intelligence operations. But it also has grist for specialists in
document storage, nuclear weapons effects, psychological problems
Soviet area collection actitdties, radio :monitoring, intelligence in
the Civil War, and Soviet political analysis.
The aualts. is sponsored irjr OM for the benefit of the intelligence
comanunit7 not as a training device but as a brewing-pot for the mingling
and development of ideas, much as any professional journal may be spon-
sored by a university prominent in a particular professional field* OM
.-aistructors do find maw of the articles useful in the classroom or in
collateral reading assignments, but here too their value lies less in
e presentation of facts and approved doctrine than in the stimulation
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of new t
ts alike. All teentally
alert. intel1gence professionals have problems they nose about, new
ai.v.oaches they have mewbere, -ssues on ithich they disagree with
accepted doctrine, or knowledge of intriguing operations of which the
azzauni'ty as a ittole is only half tuare. OIR furniehes in the Studio,
a meeting-tall in which these things can be brougit to light, discussed,
debated, and thought out.
The many who are relatively new in intelligence work or who have
been too much confined in one of its compartmented cells, however, will
find the Studies refreehing orientive reading. If the aystaatie way to
get acquainted with a person is to study his family history, am)* record,
medical report, and peythological assessment, then the best institutional
orientation requiree poring over organization charts, learning statements
of mission and functions? tracing procedural channels, and mercerising
regulations: but you dean really get acquainted with a man? or huran
institution? until you talk to him, discuss his hopes and frustrations
sriPathatiest137, and draw out his views on life. Besides, it is much
more fun to find yourself in some remote corner of the Intelligence
labyrinth explOring its intricacies than to have an oversimplified map
of it handed out to you.
Mese are the purposes it
is fulfilling ever tore satisfactorily, thanks to the increasing partici
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ion of its reading audience. Its continued prowess and future quality
depend acutely on this participation, on a flow of spontaneous contribu-
tions from all over the ccernunity. Mose who have done fresh thinking
about intelligence methods or aspects of the ideology or history of intern
game will find it a profitable and satisfying exercise to torrunicate
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