NOMINATIONS FOR STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00939A000100110020-7
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 17, 1956
• Content Type: MF

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CO:irI Z%TTIAL
17 May 1956
YF110RRANDUMq FOR: Training Liaison Officers (for distribution)
SUBJECT: Nominations for Strategic Inte ligence 3cchool
1. Individuals who meet the basic requirements, outlined below,
are invited to apply for the following course:
STRATEGIC IPTTELLIGEP?CE SCHOOL, beginning 13 ugust 1916.
Duration: short course, six weeks; long course, twelve Creeks.
2. Applicants should be fully qualified to make a substantial.
contribution to the school based on authoritative experience with the
mission and functions of CIA. It can be observed from the attached
course summary that the lecture schedule includes many of the topics
treated in the basic course of the Intelligence School, OTR. Emphasis
in the 6trategic Intelligence School, however, is on the military as-
pects of intelligence. Applicants, therefore, should be prepared to
justify attendance at the SIS an the ground that training with this
emphasis is a requirement for their current assignment. Basic quali-
fications required are:
11 . - -,7 v1- aeove, or corr.:ir::en:~urete position.
b. Age, not over 38.
c. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
d. Top Secret clearance.
e. Reserve officer status, desirable but not obligatory.
3. Individual applications must be submitted 1 6
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present position, chrono-
,logical summery of education and employment (both civilian and military),
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will assist in evaluating the request, Please in-
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V e er the six or twelve weeks course is recommended.
1 ! 4. Applicants for previous courses who were not selected are in-
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STRATEGIC INTELLIGETdCE SC 10OL
1. The Strategic Intelligence School is designed to provide
training in the theory and practical application of strategic in-
telligence. It is divided into two six-week periods. Daring the
first of these, lecturers survey strategic areas and discuss the
substantive components of strategic intelligence. The speakers are
highly qualified, experienced rfen, some of whom also lecture at the
,:Tetional 11er College and the other high-level Def nse Schools. During
the second period students undertake strategic rese&rch problems.
This assignment concerns either the country of the student's choice,
or sore phase of strategic intelligence. The course is comprehensive,
intended to stimulate intelligence officers by providing them with a
widened background in the problen s of top-level intelligence, Cidi-
dates with limited experience in the field of intelligence profit most
from the primary information presented, while those with more background
benefit from a broadened viewpoint.
2. Following is a summary of the principal topics schudul ed at
the Strategic Intelligence Sc:hool:
Subject :lours
Armed Forces Intelligence
17
Tilit^ry Geographical Intelligence
15
I ilitnry Sociological Intelligence
12
Intelligence Organization (Intelligonce Community)
10
Iilitery Economic Intelligence
9
i, ilita ry Political
Intelligence 9
Military Scientific
Intelligence, Technical
Intelligence
8
Transportation, Telecommunications Intelligence
8
Strategic Summaries
6
US Foreign Policy
6
Collection
5
Intelligence'Teporting
3
Principles of Strategic
Intelligence
2
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