DIVISION TRAINING OFFICERS' MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00939A000100060006-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 30, 1955
• Content Type: MIN

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A rTEIJDANCE:
1. Area Trainin: (LITS) briefly summarized the
Area Training Program, the ma purpose of which is to give Agency
personnel a better than minimum knowledge or familiarity with an area
with which they are officially responsible. The Program, being
designed for long range usefulness to the Agency, will include not
only a thorough knowledge of the area under study., but a language or
a group of languages thereby giving a greater scope.
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or area specialization, Than the background information of a
territorial region would be enhanced by an appreciation of its place
in the larger world picture. Language training suitable to various
regions would furnish the ' oa tone. Discussions disclosed that this
approach had considerable merit.
Final specifications for the program will be worked out by
senior area specialists experienced in all aspects of the Agency's
operations, who will be members of a special committee to be set up
to work on this program. The DDP representative or this Committee
will talk to training officers and other area division personnel to
get their views,
made the suggestion that a comparative analysis
of ideolories be incorporated in the program; i.e., U.S. ideologies
compared to those prevelant in the country or area under study.
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3. TraininnStandards: The deadline date (3 October) for
comments was a ended to 10 October. The Chairman indicated that he any?/
or could be available for consultation if any problems arose.
4. Dependents' Brie finns announced that the
Briefings scheduled for 10-31 October were for military personnel depen-
dante,, and that registrants' names should be forwarded or telephoned to
her by '.ednesday, 5 October.
5. announcement of Chan a of Dates- fo : The BOC scheduled for
31 October will, begin 24 October (deadline 14 October); the Operations
Support Course that had been scheduled for 21 November will begin
3.4 November and run through 16 December (deadline 4 November), and
would be made up of two phases; Tradecra"t first two weeks, and Admin
the last three weeks. The new Operations Familiarization course (to
be a capsule CM&T and CO for operational support personnel) is scheduled
from 14 November through 23 December and will be given
(deadline 28 October). The Administrative Procedurds, which is now a
three-week course, will begin on 31 October and continue through to
18 November. Students may be enrolled for any one week package of the
3 -week course.
Detailed descriptions of the courses will be forwarded at an
.early date.
6. Operations: The Chairman stated that it was safe to
forecast. that the Ops Course in neneral outline was being accepted,
although reactions from senior levels were not entirely known as yet.
OTR has not determined if parts of the Course will be available
in package form.
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7. CE Courses: FE Division TLO wished to state that it was
becoming more of a hardship for them not to have more slots available
for their personnel who needed CE training. They wondered if it would
be possible for other Divisions which have little or no need for such
training to give their slots to FE. Also they would appreciate it if
ideas could be presented on how to fill the void in training of CE if
additional slots were not available. 0 CI Staff, was to check 25X1
on this to see if his Staff could render any assistance. The FI Training
officer agreed to follow through on the FE problem also.
8. CIA Review: Training Officers were reminded that enrollees
for the 20 September Course (which was cancelled) had been rescheduled
for 4 October and were requested to ensure attendance,
9. Fre uen of Tra Officers'..ieetin ss The consensus was
that the meetings should continue to be held every two weeks, but
limited to one hour. To facilitate matters the Agenda will be forwarded
a day or two before the meeting. It was requested thzt items for the
Agenda be telephoned to the Chairman's Office by Tuesday preceding the
TLO meeting,
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10. It was announced that the room number for pre-testing
(PFTBD language aptitude and BOC waiver tests) has been changed to
1331 N&S Building.
U. announced OTi3 was planning to offer a tour for
training officers of P in the near future. No definite date has
yet been setp although later information indicates it will probably
not be before Decembers
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