WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 23 9 - 13 AUGUST 1965

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 13, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum CONFIDENTIAL
DATE: 13 August 1965
FROM Registrar, TR
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 23
9 - 13 August 1965
I. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
II. OTHERS
A. Both the DDI and DDS&T Training Officers have advised
us that it is doubtful that they will have any nominations for
the National Interdepartmental Seminar either in September or
in subsequent runnings.
B. We have received correspondence from Mr. James Beck,
Director of the Executive Seminar Center, Kings Point, advising
us of the progress made at the Center during the past year. Mr.
Beck is being reassigned to Washington to take over the develop-
ment of a second Center to be established on the West Coast. In
addition to a detailed report on the activities at Kings Point,
Mr. Beck appended a memo from Mr. John Macy, Chairman of the Civil
Service Commission to President Johnson in which he told the Presi-
dent of the success of the Kings Point enterprise. The President
responded by urging Government Agencies to continue to send people
for this training but to be highly selective in their choice of
personnel. This paper is presently being circulated.
C. Colonel Commandant of the Defense Intelligence
School, was advised that CIA would have only one nominee for the
7 September Advanced Intelligence Course. Colonel 0 indicate25X1
that if at the last minute we had other qualified candidates he
would be quite willing to consider them. 25X1
D. We have received a memorandum from Executi125X1
Director, EPIC requesting that t
who is scheduled for training at be so written
as to enable him to live and draw allowances This
will result in an expenditure of $2500 more than if he were PCS'd
They justified their request on their desire to have Mr.
where adequate housing is available. This
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Weekly Activities Report No. 23
9 - 13 August 1965 (Cont'd)
is approximately five miles from Further discussions re-
vealed that WE Division desires presence in 25X1
for operational urposes. Based u on this memo we are
processing for
E. A hurry-up request from BPAM to approve /' r 25X1
for Systems Analysis Training at The University of California ?~
was approved by Colonel White. isiIT a Career _ 25X1
Trainee was processed in quick order by the External Training
Branch in order that he could depart the Washington area by 114
August. This particular training program appears in part to be
a response to a 15 July Presidential Directive "that selected
personnel among the Departments and Agencies making up the U. S.
Intelligence Community be provided specialized training in advanced
studies at a university center or centers where systems thinking
and systems skills are understood and imparted, and which at the
same time possess adequate background in conventional bibliography
and other more classical approaches to literature and information
management." The Office of Training has not been put on distribu-
or~f~o this Directive. who is not aware of 25X1
the action had called me earlier for background which he
might, use in making a recommendation as to how the Agency might
comply with this Directive. He agreed to send me a co The
enrollment of in the Semis ysis Course, run
jointly by the Institute for Defense Analysis and the University
of Maryland, certainly falls within the scope of the Directive
for which a progress report is required by 1 October.
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