LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM E. COLBY FROM LT. GEN. WALTER J. WOOLWINE

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 25, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE OF THE ARMED FORCES
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20319
Honorable Wi~.liam 'E. Colby
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Mr. Colby:
2 5 JA Iv 1974
The Industrial College has again been authorised by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff to offer a limited number of civilian positions in its student
class next year to executives from the various departments and agencies
of the Federal Government. We value very highly the participation by
agencies like yours which these positions make possible, and only
regret that the number is so small.
It is a pleasure to invite you to nominate one candidate from your
Agency to attend the College during the 1974-1975 academic year.
To assist you in the selection of personnel to attend the course,
our profile of a strong candidate is set forth in Attachment #1,
showing the criteria which the College recommends as a guide for
selection of its civilian students. These criteria have been carefully
framed on the basis of long experience, with a view to bringing us
civilian students who not- merely meet our formal course requirements
but who can derive maximum benefit from their ten-months' partici-
pation in our program.
The operative ward here is participation. A key part of the
learning process at the College is the exchange of ideas, knowledge,
and experience among 180 individuals, military and civilian, repre-
senting many agencies and functional activities. What gives this
exchange direction and meaning is the common ground, shared by all
students, of interest, experience,. and career potential pointed toward
future high-level positions o.f trust in the national. security structure.
For civilian students, we feel it is especially important that each
nominee be an individual already earmarked by his agency as one of
the career executives expected to guide its fortunes in future years.
Registration for the 1974-1975 academic year is scheduled for
19 August 1974. We would appreciate your furnishing the nomination
by 15 March 1974 to include a personal history of sufficient substance
to permit evaluation of the nominee. Clearance for access to Top
Secret information is required.
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Honorable William E. Colby
I am enclosing a copy of our current catalogue which describes our
program in some detail. If you have any questions, I would be pleased to
discuss them with you. I believe the participation of your Agency
in our program will be mutually beneficial to all concerned, and I look
forward to the association.
Sincerely,
2 Inc1 WALTERn~/V OOLWINE
as Lieute General, USA
Commandant
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CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR ATTENDANCE AT
THE JOINT COLLEGES
1. The opportunity of having civilian employees attending the
joint colleges affords the Department of Defense (DoD) another means
of assuring that key civilian personnel are properly equipped to carry
out responsible duties in the Department. It is important that the
necessary time and attention, including the endorsement. of the candidate
by a high-level committee, be devoted to the selection of nominees for
this purpose, if the Department is to take full advantage of this
opportunity. In the selection, the following criteria will be observed:
a. The employee must have an appointment without time
limitation and must have a competitive status if employed in the
competitive service.
b. The employee selected for the National War College or
the Industrial College of the Armed Forces must occupy 'a position
in grade GS-15 or above. In a few instances, employees in grade
GS-14 who have demonstrated an exceptionally high potential for
advancement may be considered for selection. The employee
selected for the Armed Forces Staff College must occupy a
position in grade GS-12 or above.
c. Normally, the employee should be in the age bracket of:
(1) 35 to 45 years for the National War College and the Industrial
College of the Armed Forces; and (2) 30 to 40 years for the Armed
Forces Staff College.
d. The employee must have demonstrated a potential for
higher level responsibilities in the DoD.
e. The. employee must have arrived at a point in his career
development where the specific educational opportunity offered
by each of the colleges is appropriate and desirable for his future
development with in the DoD. Caxeful consideration should be given
to .the employee's probable future assignments and responsibilities
and a judgment made concerning the applicability of the college's
program to his development.
f. Because of the extremely broad scope of the college courses,
employees norninated should have demonstrated a capacity to adjust
themselves readily to a variety of substantial fields, to master
complex subject matter quickly, and to appreciate the problems and
understand the implications involved in economic, political,
technological, administrative, and military planning:
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g. One of the learning techniques used by the colleges is
small group activity. Employees nominated for attendance at one
of the colleges should, therefore, have demonstrated an adaptability
for work in small groups as an approach to the educational process.
h. The employee should possess the educational background,
maturity, and poise to meet on an equal footing with the other mili-
tary students (Army, Air Force, and Marine colonel and lieutenant
colonels, and Navy captains and co~mnanders at the National War College
and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; Army and Marine Corps
lieutenant colonels and majors, Air Force majors, and Navy lieutenant
commanders at the Armed Forces Staff College) and civilian students
of equivalent rank. Possession of a bachelor's degree or its equiv-
alent had been found to be the normal minimum.
i. The employee must have or be able to obtain clearance for
access to Top Secret information.
j. The employee must desire to attend the college.
k. In order for the DoD to profit by the investment in personnel
who take a course at one of the colleges, only employees who are
expected to be available for further service in the DoD upon completion
of the course should be nominated. Therefore, an employee nominated
for the course must be willing, if selected, to agree to remain with
the DoD for a period of not less than 3 years upon completion of the
course, or for such a portion of this 3-year period as his services
may be required.
1. Deviations from these criteria may be made only in exceptional
cases if it is considered to be in the best interests of the DoD, and
then only upon approval of head of the DoD component concerned, or his
designee for this purpose.
2. In addition to meeting the criteria in 1. above, employees nominated
for the National War College must hold a position in, or be associated with
or earmarked for association with, an activity in which knowledge of one or
more general subjects, such as international affairs, the relation of military
policy to foreign policy, military planning, intelligence, joint activities
of the Armed Forces, or the general structure and organization of the DoD
and other security agencies of the Government, is important.
3. In addition to meeting the criteria in 1. above, employees nominated
for the Industrial College of the Armed Forces must hold a position, or have
been selected for a later assignment to a position, which entails considerable
decisionmaking responsibility in the management of national security resources,
including the related economic, social, political, environmental, techno-
logical, administrative, and military factors. Further, the employee's posi-
tion should require him to have an understanding in depth of the principles,
policies, operations, and organizations involved in national and international
security affairs.
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