CIA BRIEFINGS FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP63-00309A000200010031-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: June 3, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Director of Training
FROM : OTh Orientation and Briefing Officer
SUBJECT: CIA Briefings for Military Personnel
DATE: 3 June 1959
REF ii,ENOE: Legislative Counselts Memorandum for the Record dated 27 May 1959
1. Briefings on CIA at military schools and to various
other military groups are fairly extensive, quite apart from
substantive intelligence briefings and lectures on communism.
"Production of National Intelligence," in which CIA is discussed
in the context of the intelligence community. Except for the
National War College Briefing, I am not aware of any DDP
participation. Formerly, there was joint DDP-DDI participation
in an Army War College panel, The DDP subsequently withdrew,
In the past year, eight DDI officials participated in this panel.
substitute for him) regularly lectures at the Naval War College,
the Army War College, the Air Force Command and Staff School,
the Armed Forces Staff College, and the National War College.
He also addresses annually a group of West Point cadets. Some-
times the lectures are substantive, but they are usually on
"CWAW` (with almost all the emphasis on the DDI) or on the
at all the War Colleges.
3. Mr. Amory (sometimes the Messrs. Kent,l
2. General Cabell has at one time or another lectured
i.. regularly lectures on the mission, functions,
and over-all organization of CIA to the following military groups:
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Department of Defense: NSA Staff Officers Course
(L times a year)
b.
Department of the Army
(1)
Army Intelligence Center, Fort Holabird,
1?iaryland: Advanced Officer Course and
Associate Advanced Officer Course (3 times
a year)
(2)
Strategic Intelligence School (includes
Air Force) (5 times a year)
c. Department of the Navy: Naval Intelligence School.
(2 times a year)
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SUBJECT: CIA Briefings for Military Personnel
Six times a year a "Departmental Briefing" is
put on for members of the intelligence community.
Military officers up to colonel and civilians
up to GS-17 attend. Participating organizations
include ACSI; Office of the Chief, Special Warfare,
US Army; Operations Research Office, US Army;
Army Map Service; ONI; AFCIN; OSO/DOD.
e. Military reservists: an average of 6 times a year
f. At the request of CLA/OPAIPD, periodic briefings
on CIA to senior military personnel officers of
the Armed Forces are given. These are the personnel
officers who assign military personnel to CIA.
g. In addition, lectures on CIA have been given (though
not on a recurring basis) at the following places:
(1) Air Command and Staff School, Maxwell Field,
Alabama
(2) Marine Air Reserve Training Command, Cherry
Point, North Carolina
(3) US Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky
(4) Bolling Air Force Base
5. The Agency provides up to 20 speakers for a single
SIS course (there are five courses a year). Some of the speakers 2 5X1A
cover specific CIA functions: on facilities of
the Office of Central Reference, on the National 25X1 A
intelligence Surveys, and Mr. Kent on National Intelligence
Estimates. Others give substantive intelligence briefings.
Agency speakers are also sent to Fort Holabird and to the Naval
Intelligence School.
6. Outgoing military attach4s are briefed by PPC and the
operating divisions of the DDP.
7. Newly designated military commanders are briefed by
PPC and occasionally the 0&B Officer.
8. Operations School/OTR annually conducts "Project Useful"
for selected military personnel.
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