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

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 4, 1954
• Content Type: STATEMENT

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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
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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
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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
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