WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT #24

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04836A000300010028-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: June 16, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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~~ce Memorandum ~ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
ro Director of Training
^ONFIDENTIAL~
FROM Chief, Plans and Policy Staff
svsJBrr: Weekly Activity Report #24
1. OT OC Graduation
o~~: 16 June 1960
Notes and suggestions for Gen. Cabell's address to the graduates
of OC #9 on 30 June were forwarded to Mr. Walter N. Elder on 13 June
1960.
2. 10T Orientation
117 Central Building has been reserved for the afternoon of 15
July for the DCI meeting. It is anticipated that this auditorium also
will be used for the opening, three-day Introduction to Intelligence
Activities block. The room has been reserved for this purpose and
IS will handle the administrative arrangements.
3. Management Statistics
The required "contributions" have been received in PPS from all
OTR components, and some additional, essential statistics are being
procured from PO/TR and R/`rR. PPS cannot meet the original 15 June
1960 deadline for the overall, OTR report; however, we ho a to have
a final draft ready by Friday, 17 June . (%=Uu ; ~~ :.. ~ , , ,)
4 . New ~A Training Officer
reports that he has learned from
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tha will succeed
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as Training Officer for 2;25X1
the CA Staff, in addition to his present duties.
5. CIA Speakers at Service Schools
A revised draft of a follow-up letter from DTR to the commandants
of service schools, requesting "feedback, " was submitted to DTR on
14 June 1960.
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6. CS Instructions and Notices
To meet the expressed wishes of DTR, AES, and LAS to see all
(DTR) or pertinent (~,ES and LAS) Clandestine Services instructions
and notices, headquarters and field, the routing copies sent to PPS
and CO/OS/TR will be forwarded as follows :
a. ~~to C/PPS, to O/DTR, to PPS, to LAS on
need-to-know basis for information and retention;
b. ~~ to CO/OS/TR, to PPS, to AES for informa- 25X1
tion and retention.
distribution for R/TR.
It should not be necessary to ask for a full set of CS issuances for
either AES or LAS; however, is requesting a full set and 25X1
7. S?~ecial Forces E&E Manual
OTR comments (by on 25X1
an Evasion and Escape chapter of a draft SF manual were collated by
PPS and forwarded to CA/PMG on 9 June.
8. PPS/Secretarial Support
is on a short leave. She plans to leave CIA 25X1
in August, 1960, and to be married in September. PO/`TR has been
notified and a replacement requested.
9. OTR Emergency, Contingency, and War Plan
of the War Plans Staff has completed a review of 25X1
the OTR Emergency, Contingency, and War Plan. It will be sent to you
shortly. The review was actually done b and consists 25X1
largely of minor suggestions concerning format and economy of presen-
tation. ~ tells us that the OTR plan and Office of Security 25X1
plan are still the only finished plans received by the War Plans Staff.
10. Educational Specialist
training in LAS .
et with _ concerning 25X1
gave them a schedule of some 25X1
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nine classes to observe within the next ten days in order that
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may be more cognizant of instructional activities within 25X1
a language training classroom. The problem here appears to be getting
enough LAS personnel together in order to present an ITC for them. An
initial ITC is scheduled for 28 29, and 30 June from 0830 to 1500 hours,
for six members of
The scheduling of further ITC's 25X1
will be dependent upon the availability of his personnel. It was even
proposed that evening ITC's be offered or a Frida ,Saturday, and
Sunday session conducted
These latter two, 25X1
however, do not hold too much appeal for
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ersonnel for several 25X1
reasons .
to talk to
personnel of LAS 25X1:1
on 22 June at 0900 hours with respect to conducting instructor training
sessions for these personnel,
On 9 June 19601 (visited Dr. Ralph S. Acker,
who is Chief of the Instructional Methods Branch, Training Division,
U. S. Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The purpose of
the visit was to explore any new training concepts, methods, and
techniques which Dr. Acker may use with particular emphasis on
training aids, large and small group instruction, and language train-
ing techniques. It was found that the Agency's training and instruc-
tional techniques were equal to, and in several cases superior to,
this Army training . An informal memo was sent to DTR on 13 June
amplifying the details of this visit.
11. S DOB - WH 4
On 14 June Itnd inquired 25X1
into the possibility of arranging for training of agents 25X1
in instructional techniques. The two agents are graduates of the 16-
weekOtraining program. They have been selected to assist 25X1
the Office of Communications as assistant instructors in support of a ~i
WH/4 commo training requirement. The requested instructor training,
concentrating on fundamentals, will serve to prepare the agents for
the immediate WH requirement and also to further their training for
their ultimate SR missions, will present 25X1
some 10 hours of afternoon and evening safehouse training during the
week of 20 June. The agents will be assigned required reading and
written problems .
12. WH 4 Covert Training
On 13 June 19601 WH/4, requested C/PPS' assist-
ance in arranging on very short notice covert training of a singleton,
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teral agent. C/PPS referred the request to
The latter Branch is completely committed at this time, and if
anything, is oversubscribed. PPS raises two questions in this
connection:
a. Should accept requirements
for tutorial training of DD personnel scheduled for other
than deep cover assignments?
PPS recommends "no, " and suggests that this be a function
of Hqs Ops School
be increased in size?
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PPS recommends "yes, " assuming that the workload trend
upward continues. The last seems reasonable in the light
of the DD/P emphasis on operations 25X1
and assets as well as the continuing requirement for training
foreign liaison service personnel in this country. The amount
of increase should be determined after consultations on this
problem with DD/P .
13. Dependent Training
informed PPS on 9 June that she had reviewed 25X1
this subject again with the DD/S and that Col. White had agreed with
OTR's handling of the matter and that no new, additional regulation or
notice is required at this time. agreed, as had 25X1
earlier, that we should iterate registration criteria for R 25X1
dependent briefings and training in the next OTR Bulletin.
14. B&FP 21 ? DD S Inauiry
SA-DD/S, inquired on 14 June into the low 25X1
registration for Budget and Finance Procedures course number 21,
particularly in view o dated 26 May 1960, Training 25X1
and Briefing on Financial Administration of Class B Stations and Bases.
PPS thereupon learned from that the registration 25X1
had reached 11, dropped to 5 with six withdrawals, and as of 14 June
was six registrants from DD/P. Some additional students may be
forthcomin from the Admin panels. Maximum desirable class strength
is 10. also reported that the six DD/P withdrawals all 25X1
were for very valid reasons, including medical hold, serious illness,
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change of assignment, failure of base to open as scheduled (in
Africa) , etc. This information was relayed t and
it was agreed that it may be too soon to expect any flood of
registrations in response to CSN 30-14. (C/PP3 feels that the
DD/P Training Officer will see to it that the notice is complied
with by the area divisions.)
PPS represented C/OS/`TR at a meeting in 1605 L (the new FI
Conference Room) on 15 June 1960 to review the status of the FTX
planning and to ascertain the extent of participation in the exercise
by representatives of Headquarters units. Pending approval by C/OS
and DTR, PPS recommended that our mutual interests would be served
1960 in the capacity of an observer and to assist the
CIA field commander. Upon completion of the second (26 Sep - 10 Oct)
phase of the FTX, would then proceed together
a_ _
to eg n at a out that time. This was agreeable to The
latter is going to Europe on Friday, 17 June 1960, to coordinate Hqs-
field planning.
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