WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 46 15 - 21 DECEMBER 1960

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• Publication Date: December 21, 1960
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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FROM :
SUBJECT:
50X1
Chief, Intelligence School
Chief, Intelligence Production Faculty
Weekly Activities Report No. 46
15 - 21 December 1960
I. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
DATE: 21 December 1960
The JOT's in the Intelligence Production course com-
pleted on 15 December two interrelated fields of instruction
current intelligence production and specialized research
methodologies. The OCI phase is an established part of the
IPC that arouses high interest in the JOT's because of its
focus on current political developments in the world. The
phase on specialized research methodologies is a new feature
In the IPC and covered research techniques which have been
institutionalized in the National Indications Center and the
of FBIS/00.
In the OCI portion of the course the students were given
an opportunity to familiarize themselves with OCI publications
and to compare them with similar publications produced in the
intelligence community, to write production articles, to par-
ticipate in two Publication Board meetings, to confer with
OCI analysts, and to meet former JOT's now working in OCI. As
a result of these experiences the JOT's appreciate the prac-
tical production problems facing OCI and have some measure of
their own capabilities and limitations in this field. The
Publication Board meetings, in particular, have been successful
In awakening the critical judgment of the individual JOT to
the need for a high standard of thinking and writing. One
measure of the success of this phase of the course is a dis-
cernible shift of the student's attitude from an academic to
an intelligence view of world affairs.
The portion of the course on specialized research method-
ologies represents a change from the previous approach to
Indications Intelligence and Propaganda Analysis in order to
give more emphasis to the research methodologies used in these
fields. As a type these methodologies appear to be similar to
each other and to others used on a less systematic basis by
the intelligence analyst in the major production 79m7nents,
50X1 particularly OCI. Through field trips to NIC and and
study of reports produced by DDI production units and articles
written in the Studies in Intelligence each JOT gained first-
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hand experience in these specialized methodologies. The
seminar in which the various methodologies were compared
was lively with the staff pitching in to express an opinion
as frequently as the JOT's. The success of the exercise
onrulaganda analysis owes much to Chief
50X1 of and his people who developed that particular ex-
ercise and spent an afternoon explaining to the JOT's the
scope and nature of their organization and its particular
methodology.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Nothing to report.
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