OPENING REMARKS BY THE DIRECTOR OF TRAINING 1954 AGENCY ORIENTATION COURSE NO.2

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CIA-RDP61-00017A000200070005-9
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December 9, 2016
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April 5, 2001
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May 4, 1954
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Approved For Release 2001/07/12: CIA-R 0005-9 Opening Remarks by the Director of Training 1954 Agency Orientation Course No. 2 1. May 1954 Fellow members of the Central Intelligence Agency and members of the intelligence community, the Fourteenth Agency Orientation Course is in session. This is a training program conducted by the Office of Training that is assisted and participated in by officers both from in the Agency and outside the Agency. The purpose of the program as all training programs in the Agency is to increase the production and efficiency of the intelligence family, by adding to the effectiveness of the individual in his present or projected assignment. I usually follow that statement with a rather pat and somewhat pompous restatement that the purpose of this course or the pur- poses and I usually get in a plug for training in general. I'm going to depart from that customary procedure this morning to tell you about a con- versation coming down here today and ask you 500 odd of the Central Intelli- gence Agency to put your minds to work on the problem. Last January one of the ablest of our junior officer trainees, OCS members came back from his tour of duty with the Army. He had been at Fort Knox where he took his basic training, Fort Benning where he took his officer candidate training and spent 6 months, no I think it was 9 months on a regular tour of duty with an Array T and 0 unit and then had come back to the Agency in January to serve out the remainder of his commitment with the Army as a regular assigned member of the Agency under the military quota. Vdhen,he came back in January he reported to my office and I have seldom seen a young: man.who was more fired with the enthusiasm of what he had done and with the enthusiasm of what he expected to do in the service of his government. He had enjoyed, he had profited by his experience in the Army.., Ha was fired up with the Annroved For Release 2001/OZ11~'161-00017A0070 -9 0LUIre~i.. GP~ ` ^- - ('UIvr1oMITI?1 Approved For Release 2001/07/12 : CtA'RDP6 desire to do as good a job in the Central Intelligence Agency. He was as- signed to an office. I hadn't seen him until this morning. We met as we were about to congregate at one of the places for the busses to pick us up. I suggested that it was a brisk morning, unlike yesterday, and that we walk to 25X1A9a the Department of Agriculture Auditorium. I said, you don't seem to indicate to me the same feeling of enthusiasm that I thought I detected on your face in January. He answered noncommitally and I said, "What's the matter?" His explanation was difficult,, just as difficult as it is for me to give you the impression I am attempting to. He said, "I think I miss the team. play." He said, "I think I miss the enthusiasm, the feeling of unity, the feeling of working together toward a common and understood goal that I felt in the Army. I feel somewhat like an outsider here. I don't know what I'm expected to do. I'm not sure of the mission and function of my branch. I don't feel that I'm as essential to the defense effort of my country as I did when I was a Second Lieutenant in the Arr:T." I said, "What is it you miss--- the flag waving that you got in the Army." ."No, I don't think I miss that." He said, "I just wonder why it is that I get the impression that people in. CIA are rather ashamed to express their belief in their own job." Nov; there is more to it than that. I don't think that I could make the position any clearer, however. I think I told you enough for you to recognize either something that has happened to you or that's happened to somebody you know in CIA. I bring it to your attention because I think that what is taking place, the spectacle that is taking place in Washington now, and that which is taking place across the Atlantic should indicate to us, all of us, the need for loyalty and pride in our outfit. And I think we do too little in CIA to nurture tt-.hat loyalty and pride in our outfit. I think we. are all loyal to our Approved For Release 2001/07/1R Q17qp?TTAQ5-9 Approved For Release 2001/07/1 RDP6 -01tL