A PROPOSAL FOR THE OFFICE OF TRAINING

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2009
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Projections for Planning. Everyone knows they are
phony, but when all the axes have been ground into
impressive tabulations they are treated like con-
firmations strong as Holy Writ.)
A ,place to Assign long-range substantive problems, E.g. -
1) World-Wide problems which will have important long-range
f
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fects on both US interests and the role of US Intel-
ligepce in helping understand those effects - especially
the Problems of population and food, world trade, monetary
systems.
Some typical examples from Latin America:
a) Tho political and social role of the military establish-
met~ts.
b) Thq political and social role of the Catholic Church.
c). Thq political and social role of the oligarchies.
d) Thq long-range economic outlook,
e) Thq effect of rising anti-US nationalism.
Similar subjects from other parts of the world, especially.
expert in the US Government assume in September 1965 the total
absence of any internal force capable of preventing a Com-ILLEGIB
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useful contributions and to avoid
duplication. Perhaps the acad
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c custom of occasiona}y
issuing a list of works in progress would be useful.
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e..;- place to develop connections with tpe scholarly world! with
the aim of winning event- ] bl'
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accuracy of ~ptelligence research;
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Provide a4 temporary haven where experienced senior officers
can profitably spend a few weeks or months (e.g. between
assignpents) studying some specific problem, uninterrupted
by current managerial responsibilities, meetings, and
telephones. Not a disposal device or a WPA leaf-raking
project, it couTd be useful only if it were seen as'a serious
opportunity by the directorates, Subjects for study might
emerge from discussion of some problem at the DCI's morning'
meeting, or be proposed by others. For example, a senior ILLE GIB
African expert might study all our Estimates on Black
Africa and contribute to answeri the question whether we
are estimating on the right sub'ects with the right emphasis.'
Bring experts on a given problem together rom i to time
in order a) to assure that the Agency's great assets in
these fields are most usefully marshaled, and b) to help
break down the lingering tribalism that still keeps the
Agency's tribes unnecessarily isolated from one another.,
(At present the two principal devices serving this purpose
are the Mid-Career Course in OTR and the rather brief in?
house discussions of early drafts of Estimates. More cross-
fertilization is needed.)
Specifically, conduct "graduate seminars" of people Farefgl).y,,
selected from all o
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Set a'.high standard for scholarly discipline in depth end
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B. The method
. Upgrade OTR into an Institute of Intelligence, on a recognizable par
with the Foreign Service institute,
Create a Divisio, of Studies.
a. Not permanently staffed by all the experts necessary to do the
types of long-range research suggested above, but so organized
as to:
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1) Stimulatg, facilitate, and keep track of such research as it
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hands involved in research projects. Objectives:
a) A kind of on-the-job training.
1.x...7.,. es - o -management as presently constituted' The
n. ing proposed' ere
would be intended to diminish either the jurisdiction or the!
respnnsibiliti f
~..w ~.ua a Gll1r CUL I EJ1 V.1.pective problems of functions,methods, and substance which they
themselves identify as needing attentio Noth
i entifying appropriate subjects an publishing results as
far as possible. ILLEGIB
Look. for ways of involving some of the Career Trainees in suFh-
atprogram, perhaps as temporary research assistants to oldl
pro ems of intelligence.
Identifying any special aptitudes they have
and
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them an earlier sense of participation in the intelligence
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In short, provide a vehicle to the DCI and the directorates for
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Facilitate the publication of worthy products of this research.
For some time to come this would mean publication within
the intelligence community, but we ought also to prepare 25X1
for the day when it will be politically possible to allow
Agency scholars to publish outside the communit such wort
works as
Until that day comes we ought to give such
s u ies ar more accurate editing and more respectable physical
production than they sometimes 'recejve nowadays. Such publi
cation would be a reward for work well done; it could be made
into an attractive incentive for doing work of real and fairly
lasting value, and gradually lessen our present practice of
publishing some ephemera for morale purposes.
7) Specifically, make better use of Studies in intelligence for
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use as he saw fit and
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to the degree he was willing to support its serious objectives.
b) A way of interesting the Career Trainees in the long-range
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