COMMENTS BY(Classified)REGARDING ACADEMIC PREPARATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05927A000100040038-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: November 7, 1973
• Content Type: MFR

Approved For Release 2001/ IM-05927A000100040038-4
INTERNAL USE ONLY
7 November 1973
SUBJECT: Comments b regarding Academic
Preparation
MEMORANDUM OR THE RECORD
STATINTL
During her exit interview on 31 October, I asked
how well she felt her academic training fitted her for duties un erta en
in CIA - was there anything we should emphasize in contacts with
department chairmen and other authorities when visiting academia?
STATINTL~'eeponded as follows:
a. The most important training to emphasize is the com-
munication of ideas. She was lucky, because she'd had an
English minor - even then she had troubles.
b. Other important subject preparation for geographers:
Basic economics
Physical geography
Sociology - social anthropology
Cultural geography
Statistics
c. Regional focus is highly desirable, she feels. The work
of a new employee inevitably takes longer, requires more checking,
and risks being invalid without it.
STATINTL
Deputy Director
Basic and Geographic Intelligence
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