WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO.5 FIELD TRAINING(Sanitized) PERIOD 2 TO 6 FEBRUARY 1959

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: February 9, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO A/Director of Training
THRU Chief, Operations School
PROM : Chief, Field. Training
DATE: 9 February 1959
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 5, Field. Trainin 25X1A6a
Period 2 to 6 February 1959
1. The weekly activities were enjoyably and profitably
interrupted on Friday, 6 February, by the Italian movie version
of "London Calling North Pole." This 35 mm. cinernascope commercial
film is an exceptionally fine piece of training material. It is
sincerely doubted. that any number of lectures or other training
media could so forcefully impress upon an operations officer the
vital need for an "independent look" into operations. While the
film deviates somewhat for commercial purposes from the actual
text of Giskes' account, it is as faithful a retelling as could
be expected. The awful cost in lives, materiel, and. the total
worthlessness of this huge effort by British and Dutch Intelligence
dramatically high-lights the absolute need for checking out an
operation through independent means. It is highly recommended that
training take steps to procure this film in order to make it
available on a permanent basis. It is in Italian with English
subtitles. The film was deemed so important that a second showing
for OFC #16 students was arranged. The first showing was for the
staff.
2. On 5 February, ATB presented for the first time to
students of OFC #16, a full day of approximately 16 hours on
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this new training to OFC students will be made.
It should. also be noted that has reported
for duty and that a complete Agency clearance was received on the
4th of February making it possible for his enrollment as a student
in AOC #24 on 9 February.
3. We have held several discussions with as to the
evaluations he will prepare on the students of OFC #1 . Ken has
been working rather closely with on this problem. They
have found that the student grades on the three written exercises
now incorporated in lieu of the 18 written exercises formerly
included., very closely approximated. recorded performance in past OFC's.
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The correlation between the three written exercises and. the
results of past exercises was .89. It appears, therefore,
that these three exercises can be used as a basis for backstopping
narrative type evaluations.
4. The first and. by far the longest
25X1A2d2 psychological tests for - individuals has been made and
given to two individuals. Bill is working with the
individuals approximately three hours each morning and. hopes
to complete the first round. of testing by 18 February. On
3 February, Bill was at Headquarters in order to review reports
from the psychologist-who worked with a predecessor
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5. Insofar as personnel matters are concerned during the
reporting week, it has finally been decided. that the best interests
of OTR at the moment will be best served by having
remain here for a while longer. Chick will be in charge
of the reporting block of the OC course when Ben is reassigned.
after OC #8.
is now ex cted to report PCS as of the
20th of February. also from TSS, will commute between
here and there unt uc time as housing becomes available.
6. In place of a schedule covering the entirety of OC #8,
a syllabus will be prepared. It is expected. that this syllabus
will be a much more usable document. It will describe very briefly
each hour of activity of the course. The entire schedule for the
twenty-four weeks is outlined on the demonstration board in
office. At the same time the schedule for the
first two weeks of the course is already available, and it is
expected that the following two weeks of the course will be
available during the week of 9 February. It is expected that
for OC #9 it may be possible to publish a full schedule prior to
the actual opening day.
7. On 5 February, Rod. and I called in all members of the
25X1A2d3 staff who have had any connection with the_ Project for a
special security briefing. I will give you a full report on this
meeting in our next Weekly Activities Report.
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