WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT #5

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04836A000300010047-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: February 4, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ~ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
2. New DD/P Training Requirements
Meeting with
PP/PMD, and I
DATE: 4 February 1960
on 3 February, each produced new DD/1P
aining requirements. These have been reported in detail in separate
~emuorauu.a, in summary, these amount to:
a. Tentative plans for briefings for OTR and for the area
divisions on joint OTR-PP/PMD proposals for a 15-day or
three-week training course for 25 members of the CIA Con-
tingency Force. This course will call for a three-day seminar
in the Headquarters training area, nine days of refresher train-
ing - mostly in PM subjects - and a three-day CPX
in Contingency Force planning and operations. If approved,
this course may be held in May, 1960.
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Initially, AES
FROM : Chief, Plans and Policy Staff
suBJEcr: Weekly Activity Report #5
Director of Training
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will support) I eventually, AES would be the primary
psychological support element, wi assisting.
3. DD/P Training Officers Meeting
At the invitation of
the DD/P ng on 3 February.
presided. COMMO training branch chief, was
also present. The training officers appeared to range from GS-14's
and 15's to GS-7 administrative assistants or junior personnel
officers. Only PP training officer, and CI,
had much to say from the floor. DDTR has suggeste at this meet-
ing be reported in detail.
b. S&T, called attention S&T course
and stated that would be
contacting the area divisions concerning students for this course.
c. Dependents Briefs appropriate introductory
and background remarks Paul Chretien described
very concisely his several briefing functions, including
(1) the EOD briefing for new employees, its
relationship to clerical indoctrination and the
Intelligence Orientation;
(2) the CIA Review, primarily for returnees
from overseas, its relationship to the Clandestine
Services Review;
(3) the CIA Refresher, available on demand,
primarily for Headquarters personnel;
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(4) briefings for members of the U. S.
intelligence community (State, Armed Services,
the SIS, etc.);
(5) briefings for foreign intelligence and
security officials;
(6) arrangement, coordination, and sometimes
active participation in briefings for senior U. S.
officials; relationship between these briefings and
the responsibilities of OCR;
(7) the Dependents' Briefing, its content and
purpose, relationship to the Americans Abroad
Orientation (AAO) series of country and regional
briefings by the Language and Area School (LAS),
the need for employees to be made aware of these
briefings, who should attend, suggestion that
each area division training officer attend at least
once, request for suggestions 7 7
fact that course i
curry being monitored by
fact that henceforth as many COMMO
dependents as possible and who are available in
this area will now attend, as a rule.
d. Area Training. then described briefly OTR's
efforts to sharpen up its area training, bearing in mind its
budgetary problems, and recommended attention to the Intro-
duction to Overseas Effectiveness which he believes is an
important part of our area trainintr g. then gave
a good run-down on the LAS area ng program, emphasizing
the new AAO series. His talk was supplemented by written
handouts and was well received. A
gave a five-minute, off-the-cuff endorsement of the
Overseas Effectiveness course.
One additional note= in connection with the required reading for the
and Operations courses, made a
pitch for broader use of this technique as a means of cutting down
on the number of lectures.
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comp eting
the OTR War Plan, and it is now in the last stages of reorganization
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has been giving full attention t
He also is planning to attend the next CAO course. ualiujly proniem.
5. Educational Specialist
worked w
Operations School; an Finl a gence School on firming
up a suggested "Table of Contents" for the OTR Instructor Handbook,
more specifically developing the outline of the materials to be included
under "Te
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ques of Instruction. "
orked with
on setting up an a a e n
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faculty. The briefing will be in two parts: on 8 M" here at Head-
quarters and the morning of 12 March he specific
purpose of this briefing is to show this faculty:
a. the principles of training aids;
b. how they can manufacture their own training aids on
an ad hoc basis; and
c. samples and types of professional aids, both graphics
and projected.
6. Attendance of Commo Personnel at Dependents Briefings
Severn 1 wa=lr o = __
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to re-examine the system
Commo has been following to prepare employees and their dependents
for overseas tours _E:::~ who was then Chief of Support in Commo, had
udit the Dependent Briefing and the AAO Program.
After=:*ated, his successor, conducted the study.
We now learn t},=
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that dependents ving in Washington who are golfing overseas for the
first time be required to attend the Dependents Briefing. Dependents
available in the local area who are going out for repeat tours will be
urged to attend the Dependents Briefing. Both employees and their
dependents will be urged to attend the AAO program.
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7. Miscellaneous
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mat- sfactorily completer) the AA-n rr_
has enrolled in an external course t her own expense.course and
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