QUESTIONS REGARDING OFFICE OF TRAINING 1953-1956

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00017A000400020001-9
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: STUDY

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Prepared by Historical Staff of 0/4C1
A. Organization problems
1. What were the consequences of the transfer of OTR from ,
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2. During the period ander disouseion vhat happened to the proposal
to merge OTR and the Office of Personnel?
3. What happened to the proposal for an Action Operations Unit?
4. What progress was made in overseas training of indigenous personnel?
5. Hew successful were the Training Liaison Officers during the
period in scheduling students and planning training needs?
6. What has been the role of OTR in the JOT program? How have
responsibilities been divided between OTM4 Office of Personnel, and
operating divisions?
7. What role did OTR have in career development planning during the
period? What progress was made in OTRIs own career development program?
B. Planning
S. What methods were used during the period to anticipate training
needs? What progress was made in manpower planning?
9. Roe have the training quotas operated (started OCt. 1954) ?
How were persons made available for training before the vote system?
10. What were the greatest training needs (shortages of trained
personnel) during the period? What steps were taken to relieve these
shortages? What explanations are there for these shortages?
U. Were there Changes in the attitudes of operating officials toward
training during this period? Bow were they brought to consider future
needs for trained personnel as against present immediate operating needs?
C. Reports and Records
22. What kind of control statistics are available on, say, an annual
sis? NUMber of students by itself is not too significant a figure.
udent-days or weeks would be more useful. (A student say be a student
orientation conference or he may be taking a 17 week course at
What is the teaching load of instructora? Are not the
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(It would be useful to have student?days analysed by office, external and
internal courses, by type of course.)
13. What happened to Weekly Summary Reports after May 18, 1956?
(Date of last report appearing in OACl/ER.)
14. Have Annual Reports of OTR been prepared since report for
nder year 1952/ (Only Annual Report found in 0/DCl/ER.)
D. Courses
15. Whet 'were the important developments in training for DO)?
For MA? for DID 8?
16. Boit was management training developed during the peridd?
17. What have been the consequences of the establishment of the
5choo1 of International Communism? (Aug. 1956).
19. Bow was the area approach developed?
20. What were the important developments in language training?
21. What were the developments in PM training?
Evaluation
22. What has been done to evaluate the success of training during
the years 1933-1956? Increased proficiency in language training can be
measured fairly objectively. The acquisition of Skills in PH training can
also be measured. Training for some types of operations would be very
difficult to evaluate. Have studies been made of relationship of fitness
ports to training taken? Between fitness reports and assessment and
evaluation reports? What use has been made of evaluations by etudents?
23. What were the activities during the period of the Assessment and
valuation staff? Bow many and what kind of personnel were assessed?
F. Methods
24. What progress was made during the period in developing training
materials? Doctrine? Training methods? Case histories? Debriefing of
returnees?
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