WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT #8

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05787A000200030017-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: February 20, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

Office Memorandum .
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Chief, Operations School
FROM : AO/OS/TR
SUBJECT: Weekly Activity Report #S'
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS:
None to report.
B. OTHER ITEM:
DATE: 20 February 1957
25X1A9a
Mr. leaves on 21 25X1A6a
February 1957. He will proceed directly to the Station
where he will train the chief of the interested service, 25X1A6a
after which he will proceed with a group of 25X1A6a
trainees, if th~ Station can make arrangements to
house them. Otherwise, the rou 's training will have to
be done in a safehouse
a. Mr departed Headquarters 15 February for
approximately four months' TDY at-tation, re-
turning no later than 1 July 1957.
of.A & E is scheduled to arrive
5 March 1957, to assist in developing evaluation and psycho-
logical assessment procedures for the indigenous training
program, dated 6 February, has been
sent to al FE stations a v s ng them that, time and other
duties permitting, he will be available to assist them in
the screening and. selection of trainee candidates. It is
felt by Headquarters and the Station that the addition of
a trained psychologist should do much to enhance the pro-
fessional quality of the services offered
c. At request, a large carton, ximately
10 se o rubber stamps, ordered b for use
in the Headquarters operations support course has been
transmitted to the Desk for shipment
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d. The first consignment of Vietnamese language lesson
material, consisting of 16 tapes in Vietnamese, and
the English text for the first four lessons, has been
25X1A6a passed or transmittal to the Station,
Ift 1. where be used by the instructors for self-study.
These texts and tapes were spot-checked by a case officer
25X1A6a and a contract agent. The latter is of
the opinion they will be adequate and useful to Americans
in learning the language. Other shipments will follow
as soon as they are prepared, until the entire course
of 30 lessons has been furnished the Station. A duplicate
set of the material is also being maintained in this
Branch.
SE
M who is scheduled to leave 25X1A6a
approPae y ch, visited the Overseas Branch on 19
February to discuss the material that is being prepared by
the Intelligence School for use in a new basic course to be
presented to - Trainees. - advised him the 25X1A9a
project was about three-fourths completede re- 25X1A9a
quested that this Branch be responsible for obtainin the 25X1A6a
finished material from band forwarding it
He was assured that the material would be transmi a promp y
and that any other new material developed at Headquarters,
which would aid the project, would be sent routinely, as has
been done in the past.
25X1A6a 4. NEA formerly of FE Division, is 25X1A9a
25X1A6a as the FI case officer on the
25X1A2g program. AO OS discussed various training materials
which are already in and those which he will need to 25X1A6a
have forwarded to him. His ETD is mid May, and AO/OS explained
to him that more usable tradecraft material will be available
to him by that time thail can be furnished now. He plans to
come in again about a month prior to his departure, when a
determination will be made as to the dates the new materials
will be returned from the printer.
5. GUIDE TO INSTRUCTION IN BASIC TRADECRAFT:
a. AO/0S spent several hours with Mr.
Requirements Division, and Messrs.
the Reports Control Staff, on 19 Fe ruary, scuss g
the reporting section of the new Guide and the revision
of the manual entitled The Case Officer and Reporting.
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agent reports. The chapter on reports was prepared
approved the chapter on "The Reports' for e u e,
Chief, Reports Control, and his assistan
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This visit was most rewarding. Messrs.
from a paper written by
and is a new addition t
version of the tradecraft manual. Both Mr.
and- said they would very much like
the rough draft of the Guide. L.0/OS assured them that
she would be delighted to have them read it, if they
could arrange to come to this office, and if their
reading did not delay the target date of 1 March.
They agreed to this arrangement.
b. On 13 February at AO/OS' request, of
the Reproduction Staff visited this office to discuss
the various methods of reproduction available for
the Guide. furnished actual cost figures
for the three kinds of reproduction in current use.
Since the photo-offset process is so much less expensive
than either of the other two methods (a difference of
almost $700 per 100 copies), it was decided to use it
and to do the typing in the Overseas Branch in order
to keep the cost down. An additional electric type-
writer has been obtained on loan and typing of the
final copy will begin as soon as possible. It was
first planned to have 600 copies of the Guide reproduced.
However, the demand for a tradecraft manual has been
a continuing one, and much greater than for the Stay-
behind paper. Since the reproduction of the latter
in September, the Overseas Branch has distributed. 219
copies (153 overseas, 66 to Headquarters personnel)
and requests continue to come in regularly. If this
is any criterion, and if the Intelligence School plans
to use the Guide in its Intelligence Support course,
the number of copies to. be reproduced may need to be
increased.
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