RECOMMENDATION THAT THE SOVIET BLOC OPERATIONS COURSE FOR CAREER TRAINEES BE DISCONTINUED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05795A000300050015-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 16, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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fecaaptumeendation that the Soviet bloc
Operations Course for Career Train**#
be Discontinued
I)TR from CISr, Division, dated
'67. subject: "The Soviet Bloc.
subject., "The Soviet Bloc
Course"
RJKFERENCI~ B
Opera & Course"
am C/SE ivision, dated
1, Reference A contains a recommendation from C/SB D1.viston
portions of the Operations Gauze* which are later
Reference contains the recoren
Lions Course be made mandatory for all
?istante preparing for field assignments
work against the Soviet Bloc target.
r observation of the first running of the
Soviet Eioc Operations Coarse, 3 - 13 January 1967, we conclude that
the course objectives, while they were very well covered. Involved
repetition of some material which had already been taught la the
E rations Course and specifically involved repetition of those portions,
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teach this skill in a separate two-week cours
eighteen month CT cycle toads to ascribe an after-
that task. We suggest rather that C/Se
material tau t in the Operations Course
to improving its effectiveness in teaching our Career Trainees to
Eck the viet target effectively. To this and. we have invited
content of the . peat e3na snrse.
,o come ear a personal briefing on the course
route to the proposal that the two-week Soviet Bloc
de aean-adatory- as noted in reference B. this
a ears to us to be a usefal procedure, on the assumption that the
coarse would be taken by officers can the verge of field assignment
Fould be concentrati almost entirely on the Soviet target.
y, some of the people who would take the course under We
Id be Career Trainee assigned fairly recently to the
ervicees. However. the fact that they would have spent
%the, if not a year or two, an a Headquarters deck before
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d. c*urss and the fact
to s, c,it S tots over**" w
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John Ri/ch/
8ardson
25X1A9a OTR/O ld (14 Mar 67)
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