OFFICE OF TRAINING BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: February 1, 1959
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OFFICE OF TRAINING
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NUMBER 45
CONTENTS
THE BULLETIN BOARD . . . . . . . .
DCI, DDCI and DDS Address
Personnel of OTR . . . . . . . .
Language and Area Training . . . . .
EXTERNAL TRAINING . . . . . . . .
REGISTRAR'S REMINDERS . . . . . . .
DIRECTORIES . . . . . . . . . . .
JAN. - FEB. 1959
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OTR BULLETIN
TO BE PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY
Starting with this issue, the OTR
Bulletin will be published on a bi-
monthly basis. Every effort will be
made by the Office of Training to
anticipate training developments for
announcement in the Bulletin within
new bi-monthly publication dates.
As usual, OTR will use the medium
of the Special Bulletin as the need
to announce interim training items
arises.
COURSES SCHEDULED
FOR AGENCY RESERVISTS
In 1959, for Agency reservists
exclusively, the office of Training
will again offer two-week courses in
selected operational subjects which
will meet active duty for training
requirements. The schedule and ad-
ministrative details are outlined in
a memorandum, dated-8 January 1959
and released by the Reserve Affairs
Branch of MPD, to all reservists in
Army and Air Force Units.
These are special abbreviated
courses and no regular constructive
credit is given for completion. Any-
one who needs the regular program in
operational subjects should be en-
rolled through appropriate channels,
but supervisors may wish to use
these two-week courses as an oppor-
tunity for reservists to obtain some
special operational training.
OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENCE COURSES
(ELEMENTARY GRADES)
For teaching children of over-
seas employees, the Calvert School,
Baltimore 10, Maryland, offers cor-
respondence courses, for grades one
through eight. Accredited by the
Department of Education of the State
of Maryland, the school is a member
of the Educational Board.
All necessary materials for home
study as well as a detailed day-by-
day instruction manual planned for
the inexperienced home-teacher are
included in the courses.
Further information may be secured
from the Information Branch, RS/TR,
extension 4625.
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LANGUAGE TRAINING
AVAILABLE AT FSI
Within the next few months,offices
throughout the Agency will be re-
quested to make annual estimates of
training requirements for the next
fiscal year. Traditionally, language
instruction has been the most diffi-
cult to plan for in estimating these
requirements. The normal medium of
instruction for Agency personnel is
in the program conducted internally
by the Language and Area School,OTR,
and in the off-duty hours instruc-
tion also under LAS auspices. How-
ever, it is frequently necessary for
the Registrar to arrange for exter-
nal language training to accommodate
requirements that do not fit in with
internal capabilities or with the
scheduled internal programs. A most
desirable alternative is that of
the language facilities of the De-
partment of State conducted by its
Foreign Service Institute. To as-
sist in improved planning for lan-
guage training needs of the Agency,
some details of the opportunities
at FSI are summarized.
Courses are full time and are
available to other departments and
agencies of the Government on a
space-available basis. Programs
range from 10 to 30 months in length
and are conducted at the Institute
in Arlington Towers, at the Language
and Area Schools in Taichung, Tokyo,
and Beirut, and at the field schools
in Nice, Frankfurt, and Mexico City.
Intensive or full-time training,
consisting of 6-class hours daily
for a minimum of-16 weeks are reg-
ularly offered in French, German,
and Spanish. Occasionally classes
are available in Italian and Por-
tuguese. These begin in alternate
months throughout the year. Be-
ginning 14 September 1959, and meet-
ing 4to 6 hours daily for 10 months,
courses will be conducted in Bulgar-
ian, Burmese, Chinese, Czech, Greek,
Hindi or Uruu, Hungarian, Persian,
Indonesian/Malay, Polish, Russian,
Serbocroatian,Thai/Laotian, Turkish,
and Vietnamese.
Selection of Agency employees for
attendance at any of these programs
requires prior consideration by a
Qualifications Review Panel, com-
posed primarily of language spe-
cialists of LAS, and the Training
Officer and supervisor concerned.
Anyone interested in additional in-
formation on other language training
opportunities at FSI may call the
Information Branch/R/TR, extension
4625. Arrangements for registration
are made by the Registrar/TR,
extension 4005. All supervisors and
Training Officers are requested to
allow R/TR at least one month lead
time for the local courses.
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INTELLIGENCE ORIENTATION EXHIBITS
SCHEDULED IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH
The Intelligence School, OTR, will
have its regular Support and Intel-
ligence Products Exhibits in the
R & S Auditorium in February and
March. Both exhibits are presented
during the current runnings of In-
telligence Orientation courses. In
the case of the Intelligence Pro-
ducts Exhibit only, 12 March, invi-
tations are extended to represent-
atives of the USIB.
course. (OTR requires a minimum of
five requests for a language at a
specified level as a basis for or-
ganizing a class.)
The 384 currently in attendance
make up a total of 58 classes, in a
total of 15 languages.
CLERICAL SKILLS QUALIFICATION TESTS
SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH
Support Exhibit
1400 - 1600 hours
11 February
11 March
Intelligence Products Exhibit
0930 - 1200 hours
12 February
12 March
SIXTH TRIMESTER, VLTP,
HAS LARGE ENROLLMENT
The sixth trimester of the Volun-
tary Language Training Program began
on 7 January with a total enrollment
of 384. The original number of
requests for OTR's before or after-
hours classes was 409; twenty-five
were not able to be enrolled because
of an insufficient number of re-
quests for a particular language
Tests in shorthand and typewriting
for employees required to meet Agen-
cy standards will be held:
9 February
2 March
16 March
Typewriting 1315 hours
Shorthand 1400 hours
They are given in Room 508 1016
16th Street, N.W. Supervisors should
register employees for tests through
Personnel Placement Officers.
Those whose test results show that
their typing and shorthand skills
are below the level expected of
Agency personnel can take refresher
courses given in OTR's regularly
scheduled Clerical Refresher Pro-
gram. The date of the next program
can be found in the Registrar's Re-
minders; later dates are listed in
OTR's Long-term Schedule.
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The fall issue of the Studies in
Intelligence contains articles on
the defector program, the workings
25X16 of the a
confession and plea rom a sc en f-
ic thief, and an excursion into
counterintelligence. There is a spy
story on the adventures of a lone
radiophoto agent, some ideas on get-
ting thoughts into words, a lexico-
graphical exercise on intelligence
and a self-examination of an intel-
ligence-consultant. In audition to
two book reviews on CIA, the General
Counsel explains what may happen if
Congress asks CIA to produce some
information and the Director says
no".
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discuss the problems of the U. S.
intelligence community with the
frankness which has made the publi-
cation a valuable one if it were to
be released to foreign nationals.
Individual articles, to be sure, can
be considered on their own merits
for use in liaison with foreign ser-
vices, provided their connection
with the Studies is not revealed; it
is the existence of the journal it-
self which should be held privy to
the U. S. intelligence community.
GOING OVERSEAS
IN A SUPPORT JOB?
If you are going overseas, certain
qualifications are mandatory: first,
you must be qualified to perform the
duties of the position for which you
have been selected. But in addition,
you must have other qualifications
of a more personal nature, such as
ability to work well with people,
to adapt yourself to your new sur-
roundings not only at work but in
your social life, to make allowances
for the differences in native points
of view, and to carry your share of
the over-all mission of the field
station. This last attribute is as
important as being well qualified to
perform the functions outlined in
the position description.
The winter issue, due out in late
February, will carry a personal re-
port on the Geneva nuclear-test-ban
meetings and the four U. S. papers
communications intelligence in World
War I and one on agent radios in
World War II. It will also touch on
the training Soviet intelligence
officers get and what went wrong
I The index to past issues, re-
quested by some readers, will appear
in this number. Copies of almost all
past issues are still available at
the office of the editor, 2032 R & S
Building.
The editors request, however, that
readers' attention be called to the
new NOFORN restriction on the jour-
nal, which extends retroactively.
The Studies would not be able to
It is very difficult to draw a
definite line of demarkation between
support and operations; actually,
the support officers are an integral
part of all projects carried out by
field stations. Finance Officers,
Logistics Officers, secretaries -
all will find in many instances that
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their responsibilities extend well Office of Training's publications,
beyond station accounting, procuring the Bulletin and Catalog of Courses,
of supplies, and taking and tran- and then schedule as t ,ch operation-
scribing dictation. They are there al support training as possible in
to do all they can to aid in the advance of leaving for your over-
operations conducted by the case seas post.
officers.
If you are going overseas, how can
you be sure that you are adequately
prepared to perform support activi-
ties? One'of the answers could be
either by on-the-job training or by
headquarters training.
Training taken at headquarters can
often be substituted advantageously
for on-the-job training. Although
all training that is done under
close, direct supervision is inval-
uable to the trainee, on-the-job
training does have one major draw-
back: loss of time. If, when you
reach your assigned post, you are
equipped to handle your support ac-
tivities, your time might be more
profitably used in acquainting your-
self with other aspects of your job.
Headquarters training presents you
with simulated field problems; it
introduces you to interdependent op-
erational and support situations.
Thus when you arrive at your field
station, your basic training will
have been accomplished, allowing you
to concentrate more completely on
the station's requirements.
Such training courses as Adminis-
trative Procedures indoctrinates
clerical personnel in basic proce-
dures of administration and adminis-
trative support. Operations Support,
designed for officer personnel, gives
instruction in Tradecraft Principles
and in Administration. Consult the
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Mr. Dulles, General Cabell, and Colonel White
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,,' Address Personnel of OTR
The following remarks are taken from addresses by Mr. Dulles,
General Cabell, and Colonel White at the annual Christmas meeting
of the Office of Training:
Mr. Dulles
"My really great ambition is to help in building up Career Service.
If I can do even a very little in that respect, I will feel that it has
been a real accomplishment. I want to strengthen the Agency from within,
not from without, with those with training and experience, not with
those who are amateurs in the business. The only way we can do that is
through having, as we have, the Office of Training. I've gone over your
curriculum (I do it each year), and I have a feeling that this year we
have reached a degree of competence that exceeds that of any other year.
That ought to be so. We ought to get better each year, and I think we
have succeeded.
"The JOT corps is one of the most thrilling in the Agency. It's
with them that I hope we will build our future directors and deputy
directors, the heads of sections and divisions.
"In the Office of Training we have been developing, too, along
modern lines. We have to be modern, We have to give a bow to science,
technology, and all of the gadgets that make us more efficient. Of
course, sometimes in the past we thought that it was enough to have a
good gadget; we didn't realize that the more complicated the gadget, the
more adept must be the person who operates the gadget. So we do require
techniques; the machine can't do it alone. It takes men and women with
know-how to run the machine, and the more sophisticated the machine gets,
the more sophisticated must we be to keep up with the age of science.
"But I don't mean, in saying that, to indicate that we should be-
come a mechanized Agency. We must be a very human Agency. For in the
future, as in the past, we will need the human agent. Occasionally in
my speeches I've suggested that, maybe unfortunately, we are getting a
little out of the Mata Hari era into the era of science, but that is
only partially true. The final payoff is going to come as always from
the well-trained agent and from the able, ingenious case officer who
knows how to select the agent and how to see that the agent makes the
most out of his opportunities. This we shall continue to develop and
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Mr. Dulles (contd)
continue to stress. For that work, training in inge and resource-
fulness plays a vital part. And I think we must also asize, as I
know you are doing, the extreme importance of training that brings us
to understand other people.
"This is the time of year when Colonel White and I and many others,
particularly General Cabell, have been wrestling with the budget. It's
always good to get that out of the way by Christmas, and I hope that the
first wrestle is behind us, although more will be coming up as we deal
with Congress. We've had to take a bit of a cut, not over last year,
but over what we thought we needed. It will mean that we will have to
do more and do better with fewer people. I don't mean that any drastic
cut is to be initiated; I don't believe that any of you need have any
worries on that score. I think I am going to cut off the old codgers
like myself rather than the young people. We're going to have to start
at the top. In any event, we have to increase our efficiency, to cut
our ranks to some extent, and, by cutting, to promote those who are mak-
ing this a career.
"But I was very heartened yesterday. We had a visit from Senator
Humphrey, who remarked that he had seen our representatives in various
parts of Europe, and he wanted to tell us that he was greatly impressed
with the training that these people had, by the way they conducted them-
selves, and by their competence and efficiency. Now this year, in
connection with their trips, quite a number of leading members of Congress
have been taking the time to talk to our people, and I have been encour-
aging that. Several other Congressional leaders who have recently returned
have had the same encouraging remarks. This has been most gratifying; I
can't tell you how much that is going to help when we start the next hurdle
of getting our budget approved by the Congress.
"Now in looking ahead to the general problems: we live in a troubled
world, and we're probably going to continue to live in one. It's a world
of challenge, a world that has a particular challenge for our type of
work. As I've mentioned to you before in my annual visits, there's hardly
a day when we do not have to cope with some new and difficult assignment
because we are faced in the world with the techniques of communism and the
great power, military and subversive, technical and otherwise, of the
international Communist movement. A great share of our work goes into
developing the techniques and training to deal with that particular threat.
I hope sometime in the future to have as extensive training courses as
they have. At the present time, the Russians take a lot longer to do what
we try to do in forty-eight weeks. I imagine they give twice or three
times as much time to training as we do. I frankly think that we are
smarter than they are, and I think we can and will do it in less.
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Mr. Dulles
"I don a any real reason to be discouraged as we look around
the world. ave a feeling that what Krushchev has done about Berlin
has been done from a little bit of frustration in view of his lack of
progress in Western Europe, where there has been a consolidation and
strengthening of the Free World. For example, in France the Communist
Party, as far as representation in the Parliament is concerned, has been
reduced to a fraction - to ten from 150. In Italy real progress has
been made. In the rest of Western Europe, the Communist parties have
been reduced to positions of political impotence, although underground
they still have subversive strength.
"However, when we look to other parts of the world, we do see dis-
turbing signs. We can't expect, and should not have expected, that all
the new countries of the world could put into effect our type of democratic-
republican government whereby the people have a full voice in the selection
of their leaders and wherein the defeated party accepts the role of the
loyal opposition. That will come. That will require education. There
have been many military dictators, but those military governments have not,
for the most part, been pro-Communist. Many have been anti-Communist and
have helped to meet the Communist menace.
"We will go through changes and developments of that kind which are
not all discouraging. They are part of a new and evolving world. Never
in past history have so many countries been born as in the last few years,
and naturally their early childhood is going to be a turbulent and a
troublesome one. But I think more and more throughout the world there is
a growing knowledge of what communism means. I was quite encouraged by the
reports I had this morning containing a roundup of what happened in the Ankara
conference where there were representatives of several score of free states
and of colonial areas, not official representatives but unofficial, who,
despite all the temptations of demagoguery, produced reasonably moderate
resolutions and who seemed to have an understanding of world problems far
better than I would have expected.
"I do want to thank you for your great contributions, and to express
again my sincere faith in the training systems that we are developing and
improving year by year. I look forward to co-operating with you in the
common enterprise next year and, I hope, in the years to come."
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GeneralCabell ka~
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"I'd like to talk briefly about an all-year-round 'theme and--- asubjelct
perhaps fora New Year's resolutign for the, ay: that of efficiency.
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Every year in support of theV-A program, the Director and I - and others -
appear before the Bureau of the Budget and the congressional conunittees.
It's essential that we go before t ese2people knowing, without reservation
in our hearts, that resources in1 are being used with a maximum of
efficiency. There are formal reporting mechanisms in existence which aim
at giving us this assurance, but these formal mechanisms never give the
whole story. There is always the danger that management facts may be
different from worker facts, and the difference may be extremely important.
~'"'So today I am appealing to the informal, that is, to the spirits
and attitudes of all` 1k employees to accept, along with the senior
executives, the responsibility for identifying, digging out, and elimi-
nating inefficiency, and thus insuring that our personnel is in full gear.
This task can be a keg of worms, but if everyone goes at it seriously,
the need for more formal and undesirably rigid approaches diminishes.
,This is one of our greatest challenges. Our AAen y is doing very
well'generally. This past year we have absorbed many chores; in fact,
over 400 man-years of work without increases in personnel strength. We
are producing a better product and responding with increased competence
on every front. While we can't, because of the nature of our business,
blow our horn loudly over our ~J accomplishments, each of us
can personally be proud of them. But let's not rest on our laurels.
Let's not give way to that trait of human nature to be eternally on the
lookout for a place to park. If water rests, it stagnates, if we rest,
we rust. So it is the job of all of us to put up 'No Parking' signs for
ourselves and for our colleagues. Inaction and inefficiency must go;
flexibility and competence must expand.- Our motto should be 'No Parking
Here.'
/'Now what can tie Office of Training do about this? Your courses
provide the opportunity for 7get3- employees to become more flexible,
more capable, and, we hope, more efficient. But there is always the
question: Are we training all the right people?
Last year, I asked you to come up with new and positive ways of
unleashing the creative energies of our people and of increasing our
over-all competence. This year, I'm going to remind you of an old saw
which may offer further challenge. You have all heard the saying 'The
operation was a success, but the patient died.' Most of our training
has been efficient, but is it doing the patient as much good as it
should? Our employees have learned, but have they been able to convert
their learning to on-the-job situations or does their job performance
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General Cabell
remain substantially as it was before their training? Let's look into
this in the coming year. If the answer is yes to this latter question,
then we may have inefficient use of our resources. If our training
courses are practical and well-developed, application will normally
follow, wanting only for the opportunity.
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"However, I fully support the Age need to train people in
subjects which today may not be immediately applied. This is necessary
if we are to grow. It is particularly true of language training where
lead time is a key factor. But wherever possible, let's not allow our
efforts\to be frustrated. Of course, in no event should the tail wag
the dog. But, assuming that the training is based on sound requirements,
let all of us be sure that there are no practices or organization inhi-
bitions which restrict or block application of new skills.
"Next ye.,, take your places in identifying and cutting out ineffi-
ciency and deadwood. Spread the word. Continue to do a good job of
training in order to make people want to take your courses. Continue
to look for new ways to get employees into your hands who should have
training. The task will be tougher this coming year than in years past.
We shall all be competing more than ever with tight ceilings, heavy
workloads, and priori bies,,b we must all get into the act of doing
our share to move the }* and its products forward. So let's make
the operation a success and have the patient live.
"Some of you may recall the story about the erection many years ago
of the statue of General Robert E. Lee in Richmond. Someone made the
comment that it would take a lot of horses to pull all of those tons of
metal all the way uptown, whereupon someone replied, 'Horses! Don't let's
have horses pull General Lee. Let's pull him ourselves!' Theidea caught
like wildfire and swept throughout the city. Pulling on that cable, on
the prescribed day, were rich men and poor men, lean men and fat men, white
men, black men, school girls, and even society matrons, tripping about
on their spool heels. Amid the laughter and tears, the songs and cheers,
they drew the General's statue in triumph to the place where it sits today,
looking out toward his beloved Southland. As soon as it reached its
destination, every person wanted a piece of that rope; and for days after-
wards, he would pull a small piece of hemp from his pocket, hold it up,
and with pride say to his friends, 'I had hold of the rope. Did you?'
"If we are to accomplish our complex mission, we need ever-increasing
skill and competence; this fact spells 'training' in capital letters.. Each
of us should be able to say 'I had a hold on the rope.'
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Colonel White
"As some, but maybe not all, of you know, the Office of Training
will have been a part of the Support organization for four years on
the sixteenth of February. I am extremely grateful for all the support
that you have given the Agency and me during these four years. I have
come to know Training much better each year, and I believe that the job
Training does is one of the most interesting of any Support component
because it cuts across all the lines and gets into every part of the
Organization.
"I follow the work in the Intelligence School more closely than, I'm
sure, the people in that School realize. Most of your basic courses are
there; the Intelligence School has all the administrative or support
courses, such as Management, Budget and Finance, Clerical Refresher, and
others. As we look forward to 1960, I think we will have to be careful
to see whether we have the right priorities in the Intelligence School.
I have been very much impressed with the flexibility of this School, with
its ease in setting up new courses, and with its efficiency in carrying
them out.
"I spent an afternoon just last week with the School of International
Communism. I was extremely well pleased with what I heard from them and
impressed with the amount of their activity during the past year. But I
was disappointed to learn that Agency interest in the School of International
Communism had dropped off some 40 per cent in the last year. It seems to
me that the Introduction to Communism and the other basic courses would
be a 'must' for almost every individual in the Agency, regardless of the
work he does, if he could possibly be spared to attend.
"I have also spent some time with the Language and Area School, but
I am not sure in the language school whether we are meeting the require-
ments of the Agency according to our priorities. I think we have made
an excellent beginning in getting people to study languages; we have a
lot of people studying a lot of languages although I'm not sure we have
the right people studying the right languages. We will have to take the
leadership in sharpening up the priorities, in deciding what languages we
are going to teach, and in trying to have the people who need certain
languages to take those languages. It's inconceivable to me, for instance,
that we have only two people studying Chinese. I believe during my visit
that several Russian language courses were canceled because of an inadequate
number of students. We have a responsibility to bring this home to the
people in the Agency outside the Office of Training and to see whether we
can't sharpen up our priorities.
"I've been down to the training base several times observing some
other aspects of the Operations School, and I am always very greatly
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impressed with the excellence of the instruction, as is everyone else
whom we take there. In 1960, however, we in the Operations School will
have to ask ourselves again whether we are placing the emphasis on
courses where we can strike pay dirt, whether we are teaching old courses,
or whether we are putting too much effort into ones that no longer pay off.
This is a question of constantly changing priorities; here again, we will
have to take a very careful look at ourselves.
"I think our present JOT class is extremely outstanding. Our new
program for the JOT's is going to be a great improvement over what we
have had in the past, and I believe I can speak not only for myself but
also for every other senior official in the Agency in saying that we
support the JOT Program wholeheartedly.
"Your Assessment and Evaluation Staff continues to do a good job.
This year there have been more and more people who realize the extreme
importance of the contribution the A&E Staff makes. It has become of
greater use, I believe, to senior supervisors and to the Security, Medical,
and Personnel Offices.
"I have seen some good results in my dealings with your Support Staff
this year. As you may or may not know, we turned the mess down at the
training base over to a private contractor and got some thirty-two people
off the rolls. Through that staff we are trying further to reduce personnel.
"All this adds up to two questions that we can ask ourselves for 1960.
To state them very generally: Can we do any more than we are now doing
on the same amount of money? Can we do what we are now doing with less
money? Of course, this will always be an objective, and as Mr. Dulles has
told you, our budget for the Agency shows no increase over our present
level. Priorities are highly competitive on an Agency-wide basis for the
funds and for the people. Every component of the Agency is going to have
to live within approximately this year's level; and if there are increases
in one component, then, theoretically at least, there will have to be de-
creases in some other component. While I don't think anyone desires to
reduce the level of our training program or to place any less emphasis on
training than we are now placing, the indications, as far as money goes,
are that we will not have any more money to spend than we have had in the
past. We could well have less. I think the same holds true with regard
to personnel. I don't believe that we want to devote any less effort to
training than we now do, but I think that we will have to look very hard
at the priorities of training.
"As to priorities, it is easy to say, and in the Support side of the
house I hear this said ten times a day, 'Well, I can't control this. It
depends on what people ask me to do.' However, in 1960, not only you in
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Training but the Support organization as a whole is going to have to take
greater leadership in knowing its capabilities and in placing limitations
on meeting its requirements. You will have to say to the person who is
placing those requirements, 'What do you want us to do? We can't do it
all, so we're going to have to set up these priorities.' It will be up
to Training and other Support components to take the lead in this rather
than to say, 'We can't honor this request.'
"I can give you a very good example. During the fiscal year 1958, we
had to issue 40,000 ballpoint pens in this Agency because people could go
to the supply room and get them for nothing. Something for nothing also
applied to training. As long as external training comes out of other
people's budgets, as long as all a person has to do is to say 'I want this
course given' and get it, people are going to ask for, and expect to gec,
things that they could not have, and probably should not have, if we lined
everything up on a priority basis.
"Therefore, the big problems facing us all are these: Can we do more
with the same amount of money? Can we do what we are doing now with less
money? Where do we stand with regard to priorities? Are the old courses
still good? Should we have some new ones or should we modify the ones we
have? Should we cut out some of them in order to take on new courses?
Within that framework is the big challenge for 1960."
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Dates for submission of requests to Registrar/TR for full-time study
have been established well in advance of the starting dates of the courses
so as to ensure sufficient time for the Qualifications Review Panel to
consider each application. The panel's approval for this type of study
must be obtained before registration of the individual can be authorized.
Applications for full-time and for part-time study should be sent
through the Training Officers to the Registrar/TR, 2623 Quarters Eye, on
or before the registration date. Students who have completed Phase I of
a part-time language course are required to submit applications for the
second phase of instruction.
All full-time language study includes instruction in reading, speaking,
and writing; part-time is as indicated.
Full-time Study
Course
Registration Date
Dates of Course
French (Basic)
16 Feb
30 Mar - 28 Aug
French (Intermediate)
Immediately
2 Mar - 8 May
German (Basic)
Immediately
23 Mar - 14 Aug
German (Intermediate)
Immediately
30 Mar - 5 Jun
Korean (Basic)
Immediately
After 1 Apr
Spanish (Basic)
Immediately
16 Mar - 31 Jul
Part-time Study
Arabic - Jerusalem (Basic)
RSW - Phase II
Three 2-hour
classes a week
Chinese (Basic)
RSW - Phase II
Three 2-hour
classes a week
French (Basic)
Reading
Three 2-hour
classes a week
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23 Mar - 14 Aug
2 Mar - 24 Jul
6 Apr - 12 Jun
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Part-time Study (contd)
Course
French (Basic)
RSW - Phase III
Five 2-hour
classes a week
French (Intermediate)
RSW
Three 2-hour
classes a week
German (Basic)
Reading - Phase I
Three 2-hour
classes a week
German (Workshop)
Reading
One 1-hour class
and one 3-hour
class a week
German (Basic)
RSW - Phase II
Three 2-hour
classes a week
German (Intermediate)
RSW
Three 2-hour
classes a week
German (Basic)
RSW - Phase I
Three 2-hour
classes a week
Greek (Basic)
RSW - Phase II
Five 1-hour
classes a week
Italian (Intermediate)
RSW
Three 2-hour
classes a week
Registration Date Dates of Course
23 Mar 6 Apr - 12 Jun
Immediately 16 Feb - 24 Apr
16 Mar 30 Mar - 5 Jun
16 Mar 30 Mar - 5 Jun
2 Mar - 24 Jul
2 Mar - 8 May
2 Mar - 24 Jul
2 Mar - 24 Jul
16 Feb 2 Mar - 8 May
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Course
Registration Date
Dates of Course
Japanese (Basic)
RSW - Phase II
Three 2-hour
classes a week
Polish (Basic)
Reading
Three 2-hour
classes a week
Romanian (Basic)
Reading
Three 2-hour
classes a week
Romanian (Basic)
RSW - Phase III
Five 2-hour
classes a week
Russian (Familiarization)
Two 1-hour
classes a week
Russian (Basic)
RSW - Phase II
Three 2-hour
classes a week
Russian (Intermediate)
Reading - Economic I
Two 3-hour
classes a week
Russian (Intermediate)
Reading - Scientific I
Two 3-hour
classes a week
Spanish (Basic)
Reading
Three 2-hour
classes a week
6 Apr
6 Apr
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23 Mar - 14 Aug
2 Mar - 12 Jun
6 Apr - 12 Jun
6 Apr - 12 Jun
6 Apr - 26 Jun
(originally scheduled
6 Apr - 12 Jun)
2 Mar - 24 Jul
20 Apr - 31 Jul
20 Apr - 31 Jul
6 Apr - 12 Jun
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Part-time Study (contd)
Course
Spanish (Basic)
RSW - Phase III
Five 2-hour
classes a week
Spanish (Intermediate)
RSW
Three 2-hour
classes a week
Turkish (Basic)
RSW - Phase II
Five 1-hour
classes a week
Uzbek (Workshop)
Reading
One 3-hour
class a week
Registration Date Dates of Course
23 Mar 6 Apr - 12 Jun
Immediately 16 Feb - 24 Apr
16 Feb 2 Mar - 24 Jul
3 Mar 17 Mar - 19 May
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Applications for part-time area training should be submitted to
Registrar/TR on the dates indicated.
Course
Regional Survey
Registration Date Dates of Course
East Asia 13 Apr 20 Apr - 26 Jun
1400 - 1630 hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
2132 "I" Building
Southeast Asia 24 Feb 3 Mar - 7 May
1345 - 1645 hours
Tuesday, Thursday
2132 "I" Building
East Germany, Czech., and Poland 31 Mar 14 Apr - 18 Jun
0900 - 1230 hours (originally scheduled
Tuesday, Thursday 13 Apr - 15 May
2132 "I" Building
Note: Present plans for this course take it out of the category
of a Basic Country Survey, as it was previously classified.
A description of this course will follow in the next issue
of the OTR Bulletin.
Regional Survey Southeast Asia 3 March - 7 May 1959
A regional survey on "Southeast Asia," covering the Philippines,
Indonesia, Malaya, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma, is
scheduled to start on Tuesday, 3 March, and to continue through Thursday,
7 May. Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1345 to 1645
hours in Room 2132B "I" Building. Applications for enrollment should be
in the office of the Registrar/TR on or before 24 February. An interview
with the Chief Instructor, 2132B "I" Building,
extension 4438, is required of each applicant before admission to the class.
While basically concerned with each of these countries, consideration
will be given to regional relations that link them, or those that form
cleavages among them. The economic, political, sociological, ecological,
and demographic factors will be considered. There will also be discussions
supplemented by films. Students will be required to take an oral test and
submit term papers. Guest speakers have been invited to present some of the
lectures.
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Regional Survey East Asia 20 April - 26 June 1959
The next presentation of the Language and Area School's regional
survey on "East Asia" is scheduled to start on Mondays 20 April, and to
continue through Friday, 26 June. Classes will meet on Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday from 1400 to 1630 hours in Room 2132 "1" Building. Applications
for attendance should be in the office of the Registrar/TR, on or before
13 April. Anyone who wishes to attend the course should arrange for an 25X1A
interview with the Assistant Instructor, extension 4437.
This survey on East Asia has been revised and it covers the areas of
Communist China, Nationalist China, the two Koreas, Japan, and Asian Russia
in the modern period, beginning approximately with 1860 with emphasis on
the period after 1900. It treats the area as a whole and will not be a
"'country-by-country" survey, though on specific problems this will nec-
essarily be done. Because of this approach, applicants should enter the
course with some knowledge of one or more of the major countries in the
area. There will be a comparative study of the interlocking problems of
nationalism, economics, ideologies, and social forces of the area, together
with an analysis of the impact and influence on the area of other powers,
the Free World, the Communist blocs, and those currently uncommitted areas.
Basic Country Survey USSR 11 March - 15 May 1959
The School of International Communism and the USSR, OTR, will give
the third program in USSR Basic Country Survey from 11 March to 15 May.
Classes will be held Wednesdays and Fridays from 0900 to 1200 in Room
2202 Alcott Hall. Applications for registration must be submitted to the
Registrar, Office of Training, on or before 4 March. Maximum enrollment
in this course is twenty-five. For further information, call
SIC, extension 2428.
USSR Basic Country Survey is designed to meet the needs of personnel
whose duties require comprehensive knowledge of the USSR. The emphasis
is on current conditions. The following subjects are included:
Historical development of Czarist Russia and the USSR
Geography, natural resources and nationalities
Role of the Communist Party
Structure and activities of the government
Military, scientific, and economic capabilities
Organization and operations of the economy
Soviet foreign policy
Lectures and seminars, which represent the primary means of instruction,
will be presented by the regular staff members of SIC and by qualified
specialists from offices throughout the Agency. Selected written material
and films illustrating facets of the current Soviet scene will also be included.
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MANAGEMENT
Personnel Conference at Chicago
The American Management Association will hold its Mid-winter Personnel-
Conference at the Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, from 16 to 18 February 1959.
Concluding the conference on 18 February, Dr. Charles Malik, President
of the General Assembly of the UN, will speak on the subject "Human Relations
Pays Dividends."
Topics for discussion include:
Teamwork in Personnel and-Public Relations: A Case Study
Creativity or Egocentricity
Growing Career Managers
Personnel Problems of Decentralization
Communications: New Dimensions
Wage and Salary Administration
Clinker Clauses: A Case Study
Re-evaluation of Job Evaluation
Wages and Productivity
Philosophies of Labor Relations: A Closer Look
Columbia University
Twice yearly, a six-week program conducted by the Graduate School of
Business, Columbia University, presents a concentrated course of study for
senior executives. Two sessions are offered this summer: 14 June to
25 July 1959 and 16 August to 26 September 1959, both held at Arden House,
Harriman, New York.
The Executive Program in Business Administration, designed for executives
in top management position, is specifically planned for those who formulate,
or help formulate, over-all policy. The program focuses on three interrelated
areas: determination of business policies, internal administration, and
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Columbia University (contd)
management of economic, political, and social forces which affect business.
Because of the heavy demand for the program, applications should be
submitted no later than 1 April 1959. Applicants will be notified of accept-
ance by 20 April for the June session and by 18 May for the August session.
Further information may be secured from the Information Branch, Registrar
Staff/TR, extension 4625.
Cornell University
Under the sponsorship of its Graduate School of Business and Public
Administration, Cornell University will conduct its seventh annual Executive
Development Program from 22 June through 31 July 1959.
This course is designed for senior executives from private enterprise
and Government agencies. Instruction will include consideration of important
issues, interchange of ideas with faculty, business leaders, and other
participants, and discussion of case studies. The over-all theme will be:
"A Top Management Approach to Meeting Changing Conditions."
Applications should be submitted through Training Officers to the
Registrar/TR by 1 March 1959.
Cornell University
A four-week Management Seminar in executive leadership will be offered
29 March to 24 April 1959 by the New York State School of Industrial and
Labor Relations at Cornell University. Major emphasis will be on the appli-
cation of theories and knowledge to the particular problem situations and to
the ways and means of resolving them.
Resident Cornell Faculty will provide the leadership of the program.
They will be assisted by guest lecturers from business, organized labor, and
other educational institutions.
Applications should be submitted to the Registrar/TR no later than
27 February 1959.
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Johns Hopkins University
The fourth and final Conference for Corporation Executives, scheduled
on the 1958-1959 program by the School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University, will be held from 18-19 March 1959 at the Hotel
Statler, Washington,D. C. Encompassing a survey of the British Commonwealth
and its relation to American business, the topic for discussion is entitled
The Pound and the Dollar.
Attendance is limited, but a small quota has been obtained for Agency
personnel who may enroll, on a nonparticipating basis, as guests of the
President of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation, an affiliate of SAIS.
Applications should be forwarded through Training Officers to the
Registrar/TR, at least two weeks before the date of the conference. Applicants
will be notified of acceptance.
American University
The School of Business Administration of American University will hold
its thirteenth annual Institute on Railroad Management from 16 - 26 March 1959.
This year the focus of the Institute will be on the competitive situation
which the railroads face today and on what is being done and can be done in
rates, services, improved plant and equipment, management procedures and
research methods to cope with competition.
The program is designed for middle-management personnel who may be
required to accept greater responsibilities in this field. Some experience
'n the study and management of rail transportation is highly desirable and
generally required.
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16 Feb - 13 Mar
23 Mar - 17 Apr
Pre-testing for the Clerical Refresher Program is scheduled
in Room 508, 1016 16th Street as follows:
12 February
19 March
Typing 0900 - 1000
Shorthand 0930 - 1100
English Usage 1100 - 1200
Information on courses can be obtained from Training Officers, the
Information Branch/R/TR, or from the OTR Catalog. Approval and sponsor-
ship of a supervisor are necessary to register in a course. Applications
should be submitted through Training Officers to Registrar/TR, by the
close of business of the date indicated.
Course
Registration Date Dates of Course
* Administrative Procedures 9 Feb 16 Feb - 6 Mar
136,
0
13 Apr 20 Apr - 8 May
Budget and Finance Procedures 30 Mar 6 Apr - 17 Apr
149,
0
Clerical Refresher Program 9 Feb
Hours arranged after completion 16 Mar
of pre-test
508, 1016 16th St.
Communist Party Organization
and Operations
Daily
0830 - 1230 hours
2202 Alcott
6 Apr - 1 May
* Please indicate phase in which employee is to be enrolled
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Course
Registration Date Dates of Course
Conference Techniques 13 Apr 20 Apr - 29 May
Monday, Wednesday
0930 - 1130 hours
2025 R & S
Dependents' Briefing
117 Central
(Consult 3 Feb - 4 Feb
Training 3 Mar - 4 Mar
Officer)
Effective Speaking
Monday, Wednesday
0930 - 1130 hours
2025 R & S
2 Mar 9 Mar - 17 Apr
Instructional Techniques --- (Scheduled upon request)
* Intelligence Orientation
DDI, DDS
DDP, DDS
R & S Auditorium
Intelligence Research - Maps
Immediately
23 Feb
2 Feb - 27 Feb
2 Mar - 20 Mar
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
0900 - 1200 hours
2029 R & S
Management - Basic
GS 11-13
Daily
0830 - 1230 hours
155,
25X1A
* Operations Support
23 Feb
2 Mar - 3 Apr
136,
Supervision - Basic
GS 9-12
2 Mar
9 Mar - 20 Mar
GS 12-14
23 Mar
30 Mar - 10 Apr
Daily
0830
155,
Supervision - Introduction to
9 Feb
16 Feb - 20 Feb
GS 5-7
Daily
0830 - 1230 hours
25X1A 155, 0
* Please indicate phase in which employee is to be enrolled
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Writing Workshop
0900 - 1200 hours
1st Wk: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Last 3 Wks: Tuesday, Thursday
2027 R & S
23 Feb 2 Mar - 27 Mar
"0" Courses
Titles of 110" Courses are identified in the OTR Catalog (TR CC 100-1)
January 1957.
I
0-15
0-17
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0-25
23 Feb 2 Mar - 20 Mar
27 Apr 4 May - 29 May
27 Apr 4 May - 15 May
30 Mar 6 Apr - 17 Apr
27 Apr 11 May - 5 Jun
16 Mar 23 Mar - 10 Apr
20 Apr 27 Apr - 15 May
23 Mar 6 Apr - 1 May
4 May 18 May - 12 Jun
9 Feb 16 Feb - 6 Mar
23 Mar 30 Mar - 17 Apr
13 Apr 20 Apr - 1 May
23 Feb 2 Mar - 20 Mar
9 Feb 16 Feb - 20 Feb
16 Mar 23 Mar - 27 Mar
23 Mar 6 Apr - 1 May
30 Mar 6 Apr - 24 Apr
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