OFFICE OF TRAINING SURVEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-01094R000500070007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General
SUBJECT : Office of Training Survey
REFERENCE : Memo from I.G. to DD/A TLO, dtd 24+ November 1953,
subject: "Request for Information on Training Matters"
1. The information requested in referenced memorandum is furnished
in the following paragraphs, which follow the order of your questions.
2. The preponderant opinion of Office Heads of the DD/A
organization is that the Office of Training provides for an adequate
degree of flexibility in offering and scheduling courses, and that
OTR has been eminently cooperative in developing programs in res-
ponse to the needs of the Offices.
3. Offices making up the DD/A organization have differing view-
points concerning the desirability of retaining the present policy
of mandatory training. However, taken together, the Offices which
endorse the present policy employ well over half of the personnel
who make up the DD/A organization. This Office supports the view-
point that certain fundamental training should be mandatory for all
Agency personnel. The information imparted through such training
not only increases the ability of new employees to produce more effec-
tively in a shorter period of time, but tends to unite them through a.
better understanding of this Agency's mission, organization and
policies.
4. There is rather general agreement among all of our offices
that the range of courses offered by OTR is not sufficient to encom-
pass instruction on all responsibilities assigned to them; At the
same time, however, it is the feeling of these offices that it would
be neither feasiblel-or desirable for OTR to try to expand its course
program to change this situation. It almost unanimously agreed that
such training needs as are not filled by OTR can be best met by the
offices themselves, occasionally with the assistance of OTR. The
reasons given for this stand include: (1) subject matter sometimes
so specialized that outside facilities might be more profitably and
economically utilized (e.g. law school seminars to cover specialized
subjects such as admiralty law, tax and real estate law; similarly
personnel courses available outside CIA might be arranged for indi-
vidual employees of the Personnel Office); (2) number of personnel
needing training in the skills required by the office is so small (e.g.
Audit) that any OTR program would not be practicable; and (3) in some
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instances the training to be done falls in such specialized fields
(medical and security) that the office concerned is in the best posi-
tion to give the necessary instruction.
5. A considerable amount of regular course training work is
done in the DD/A organization. Formal courses are conducted by the
Medical Office, Security Office, General Services Office, and Logis-
tics Office. The Personnel Office and the Comptroller's Office
operate on-the-job rotation and training programs which do not
conform to prescribed course outlines and schedules and are therefore
not classified as "courses." The individual courses given by the
various DD/A offices are described in the separate memoranda attached.
6. Systems in operation in the DD/A organization for recommend-
ing and accomplishing training are reviewed in the reports of the
individual offices attached.
7. The number of exemptions from attendance at mandatory
courses requested by DD/A offices is negligible. Most offices have
asked for no exemptions at all. The Medical Office has requested
four exemptions, and Logistics one. The Security Office obtained
blanket exemption for eighteen unvouchered employees slotted to field
positions throughout the United States. However, upon transfer to
departmental positions these people will be enrolled in the various
courses where mandatory attendance has been set up. In addition, a
night Security Officer has been exempted because of his inability to
serve in a duty status during daytime hours.
`C .
Training Liaison Officer
Office of DD/A
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