WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT #20

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000100060016-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: May 20, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Director of Training
THRU : Chief, Operations School, OTR
FROM : Chief Overseas, Operations School, OTR
Weekly Activity Report #20
DATE: 20 May 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS:
None to report.
B. OTRER ITEMS:
25X1A9A
While he was here I arranged for him to see
to discuss facilities. Mr. has
completed OFC and we have enrolled him in the basic photo-
graphy course for the period 25 May through 12 June, and
in Operation of Audio Surveillance Equipment, 23 through
1 26 June. The latter course was suggested by
with whom Mr. - will work, He is also scheduled
for the PETB testing on Friday of this week. His ETD
will be about 1 August, since Dick would prefer to have
him report to the Station after he (Dick) has arrived.
2. NUCLEAR WARFARE HANDBOOK: (See page 1, WAR #1.9,
13 May
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On 13 May attended an 25X1A9A
Industrial War College lecture on "The Psychological
Effects of Nuclear Warfare". The speaker was Dr. - 25X1A5A1
was mainly concernea witn pre-
attack psychological conditioning of the civilian
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population and with post-attack reactions f rticular
interest to us for the Handbook
was his discussion of large-scale, post-attack manifesta-
tions among the populace, such as "passive disorder,"
"pseudo-radiation sickness," anger and hatred directed
against civil authorities, and the emergence of new leader-
ship. Although he admitted the impossibility of predicting
the reaction of the American population with a high degree
of certainty, he believed certain effects could be foreseen
from study of civil disasters (Texas City, etc,), as well
as of World War II bombing experience,
has just about completed his search of various
governmental offices for significant information and publica-
tions. To date he has visited: the Guided Missile and Medical
Divisions of OSI; TSS; the Division of Biology and Medicine of
AEC; Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization; the Armed Forces
Special Weapons Project; Navyts Bureau of Ships; and the Office
of Special Investigations of the Air Force.
on 15 May the DDTR visited us to meet Bob and to discuss
the handbook. He was briefed on the progress made to date:
approval by Col, of the PM Staff and Mr.
= of WE/of Bob's revision of the outline, and Bob's
visits to various places in search of background information,
illustrative material and of detection devices for the pro-
posed ttkit,tt Bob has arranged through the Film Branch to get
a selection of films for review. The first one is to be shown
at 9 otclock on 22 May in Building 14. The DDTR suggested
that we discuss with the possibility of compiling
a training film, largely from shots taken from films already
produced and we are exploring this possibility with Bill
3. REVIEW OF SECURITY FILM SCRIPT:
Just prior to the DDTR's visit, came in to
discuss his script for the Security - m or is which he
had asked us to review. We had a few suggestions based on
our past experiences in the pook" side of the Agency, but
on the whole we though ttscript was excellent.
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)4. SURVEILLANCE:
On 18 May visited to survey
available training papers on physical surveillance. He has
recently been reviewing F I projects concerned with physical
and audio-surveillance, and wanted a few good training papers
to suggest for use in improving the quality of sub-standard
operations. After reading through most of what we had, he left
satisfied with one paper for staff level, another for agent
level.
5. DDP CLEARANCE PROCEDURES:
On May, with CI OA concurrence, we released six Trade-
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Our release was in response to a request by
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but as the circumstances were somewhat
irregular we included a quantity of detailed cautioning in
our memorandum to the desk (See info copy attached). On
15 May Mrs. FI Training Officer, cited this
case to me by phone and said that wishes
us to clear the release of any training materials to the
military through Chief, FI, regardless of whether they are
to be passed in the United States or overseas. I pointed
out to Maggie that we are always happy to cooperate with
the DDP/Training Officer and had always arranged such clear-
ances on domestic releases. However, in the instant case
we did not release the materials directly to a military
service, but to an area division for transmittal to a field
station. I explained that we are reluctant to give instruc-
tions to an area desk on internal clearance procedures, but
assured her that, if a similar situation arises, we will give
such guidance as we can on an informal basis.
6. THE MACHINE, ALAS, MOVES ONWARD:
25X1A9A On 13 May Mr. Office of Personnel,
visited to discuss his plans for categorizing operational
skills and experience in sufficient detail to facilitate
development of a really useful punch-card system for quickly
identifying agency personnel most suitable for a specific
case officer assignment. The system will make use of a
mechanical-brain computer shortly to make its appearance
25X1A9A within the Agency. (Mr. parenthetically assured us
it has been his experience that machines of this type usually
require more people to service them than were on hand before
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the machine arrived). After tallttng over some of the problems
to be faced in such a project, we referred Mr. to
of A&E. Jim's A&E background and operational experi-
ence would seem to qualify him especially well to comment on
the feasibility of this scheme.
7. TRAINING MATERIALS IN PREPARATION:
a. Glossa of Intelligence Terminolo : During DDTR's
visit on 15 May we discussed our draft of a glossary
for staff use, which has grown out of our work on a
version releasable to liaison services. (Since we will
not cover the entire field of intelligence, we are sub- w"<
stituting "Operational" for "Intelligence" in the title.)
25X1A9A Mr. - made several suggestions of additional terms,
and we plan further coordination with DD/P Senior Staffs
on the terms we have added to the sanitized. version. The
latter version, now called a "Selected List of Intelligence
Terms," went to Reproduction on 18 May. We will get 100
copies, which should be ready in about a month.
b. Reporting Guide: A sanitized version of the Field
Officer s Guide to Intelligence Information Reporting
went to Reproduction on 19 May. We have requested 100
copies, to be delivered by 30 June. Meanwhile we are
down to 18 copies of the staff version--out of 600
originally reproduced. The impression we have received
25X1A from DD/P reports officers is that there is considerable
disappointment with the draft resulting from RQI/RCts
long travail to produce a revision of the ^ on reporting;
consequently we expect a continuing demand for the staff
version of the Reporting Guide. We have kept the multi-
lith mats, and a rerun therefore would entail no substantial
work on our part. We are investigating the relative cost
of 50 and 100 additional copies.
25X1A14A c . Identification System: We are now having
typed on ditto for the DTRts signature a memorandum to
Division Chiefs explaining what we need in the way of f
cooperation from them in preparing final foreign-language ft
copy for the "crutches" which will be given to 25X1A14A
to assist in the preparation of identification communica-
tions. The draft embodies suggestions made by Mr. - 25X1A9A
25X1A9A of with whom we have been working closely on
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the whole project. This memorandum will not go out
until Bill gives us the word that the book dispatch
mentioned in it is on its way.
..Tradecraft Guide: one copy to
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the U.S.; one copy on loan t
Office of Personnel;
d. Communism: one hundred twenty-two items to
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Debriefing and related sub'ects: a collection of Pat
IM material to him at
f. CE Case Histories: two items to CI Training Officer
for retention;
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i. Surveillance,etc: four items on loan 25X1A9A
for use in the development of a refresher tradecraft
course for old hands;
j. Judo Manual: one information copy to Field Training
Base;
k. Use of Maps and Compassest twelve copies
C. ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS:
25X1 A Mrs.
is this week receiving tutorial
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training from Mrs. - office on the subjects of
dispatches, cables and travel.
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