COURSE REPORTS: CS RECORDS I - III

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05795A000600010002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 14, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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SECRET
14 September 1966
FOR: Director of Training
ATTENTION
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: Course Reporter: CS RECORDS I - U
ES : A) CS Records I Course? Report
z R) CS Records II Course Repo
C) CS Records III Course Report
Course was created at the direction of the CS Records Committee.
1 . The Cl Staff has been closely associated with records
ng from 1955, when seminars were the mode of instruction, to
ubstantial operational experience. Thereafter the Records Officers
k cembeer 1961 then proscribed that all Records Officers should have
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the present. The pilot course of instruction for records officers
A Cl Staff continuity of more than a decade of direct in-
reviewed References A. B, and C. Their specific objections, keyed
records training is chiefly reflected in the work of
They have
references. are summarized in the attachment to this memo-
randum. Their chief criticisms are as follows:
a. Fairly to judge the effectiveness of past and present
training requires a perspective based an long experience.
U. References draw a line of cleavage between the past
and present, though in fact they are a ce tinuurn, and present as con-
trasts what are really no more than developments in training concepts
and practices - developments that have been in course for eleven years.
C. References tend to denigrate the past performance.
Although it is difficult to say who should judge. It is suggested that the
studerds may be the most impartial of available critics. And the fact is
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student critiques of past courses
present courses) were decidedly favorable.
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