SURVEY OF SELECTED MANAGEMENT TRAINING COURSES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06207A000200110001-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
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• Publication Date: January 10, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director-Comptroller
THROUGH : Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT . Survey of Selected Management
Training Courses
1. During 1972 the Office of Training polled senior Agency
officers on the value of 12 selected management training courses.
The survey was limited to GS 16-18 officers stationed at Head-
quarters who were chosen by the Training Selection Board to
attend and who did attend the courses. These limitations, for
instance, eliminated officers in the field and those retired from
the Agency. Some 85 officers were contacted for the survey, and
55 of these have responded. Because seven of the responding
officers attended two courses, we have received back 62 survey
questionnaires covering 12 different courses. The 55 officers
represent all elements of the Agency -- O/DCI, 10; DDI, 17;
DDP, 11; DDS&T, 4; and DDS, 13. The attachment to this
memorandum lists the 12 courses with the names, Directorates,
and dates of attendance of the officers participating in the survey.
The survey itself asked:
a. In retrospect, what value to the Agency (as
opposed to personal benefit) did the course you
attended have.?
b. Would you recommend this course for other senior
officers?
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2. According to the responses of the officers in the survey,
the courses are worthwhile, and, with few exceptions, these
officers would recommend them to other senior officers. Looking
back on their student days, they found the experience broadening,
the change of pace beneficial, and the new contacts useful. They
feel that the representational aspect was a direct benefit to the
Agency.
3. The survey questionnaire specifically asked that a
distinction be made between the benefit to the Agency and benefit
to the individual. Some officers found the distinction useful and
tended to be direct in making the connection between the value of
the training and subsequent assignments.
a. pointed out that the Advanced
Management Program at Harvard was almost
exactly the type of training needed in his
present assignment as SA-DD/S for air proprietary
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knowledge gleaned as an Air War College student
was of tremendous value during the years 1958-60
when he was Support War Planner in the - 25X1A
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benefit from his attendance at the Naval War
College in that it "paid off time and a ain" in each
subsequent assignment. and 25X1 A
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in their subsequent assignments as a result of
attending the FSI Senior Seminar.
25X1A b. carried one step more this point of
separating individual and Agency needs by saying
that he would recommend the Air War College
primarily because the Agency gains. "The
individual profits from attending the course, but
this is a lesser consideration".
expressed a similar thought. He believes the
selection process should be more to the "needs of
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the Agency" and the development of the individual
to that end. moved the discussion
to one type of conclusion by asserting that "nobody
should be sent to the National War College for
sheer personal benefit, for ego up-building and
'generalist' exposure".
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4. Other officers tended to treat the distinction as not useful.
pointed out that he could not "separate personal
benefits from those of value to CIA"; H. C. Eisenbeiss noted that
he, not the Agency, attended the course, and - labelled 25X1A
the distinction as unrealistic, thus making a meaningful response
impossible. Paul Walsh observed that the focus on the distinction
"reflects a pretty antiquated and obsolescent approach to the value
and purposes of training".
5. A number of officers saw the individual, not the Agency,
as the prime recipient. The Agency is seen as benefitting indirectly
through the individual. The benefit to the individual is described in
a number of ways -- a recharging of batteries, a broadening of one's
interests, a sabbatical, a sharpening of perspective, a view of what
the non-intelligence part of the government is doing. 25X1A
noted that the experience of attending the National War College
spurred him to go back to college and obtain a Master's Degree in
25X1A International Relations. pointed out that the military
subject of the Armed Forces Staff College was in itself "informative
and broadening but not specifically applicable to my subsequent
assignments in the Agency"'.
6. Aside from the question of who or what benefits from
the courses, there was agreement that there are other benefits and
that these other benefits are of direct value to the Agency. These
benefits are contacts and, of particular importance, public relations.
The making of new friends in other government agencies and in the
private sector tended to be seen in terms of the value of contacts on
the job. Approximately one third of the survey responses made
specific reference to new contacts. Of the officers who made this
point, only one noted that he had made no contacts useful to the Agency.
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About an equal number of officers in the survey made specific
reference to the senior courses as important opportunities to
improve the Agency's public relations. This type of comment
tended to come from those officers who attended the National
War College, the Foreign Service Institute, and the Advanced
Management Program at Harvard. Curiously enough, one officer
mentioned public relations activity in favor of his own office.
James Murphy noted that he conducted public relations for the
during his time at the Brookings
7. The survey not only revealed a division of opinion as
to how to allocate the impact of training but also indicated a
division of opinion as to the criteria for selecting officers to
attend the course.
a. Almost all would recommend the course to other
senior officers, but about one third of this majority
would either: limit or change the basis for selection.
The survey did not ask for an opinion on the
selection process, but it is possible that the survey
question on the distinction between the value to the
Agency and the individual evoked the additional
response on selection. The unsolicited opinions
on selection indicate that one group would recommend
that senior officers continue going to these courses,
that a second group would recommend that senior
officers slated for certain job assignments go to
these courses, and that a third group would give
consideration to the officer's ability to represent
the Agency. These three criteria -- senior officer,
senior officer and next assignment, and senior
officer and ability to represent the Agency -- appear
to be another form of the earlier problem on how to
judge the payoff of training.
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b. The first group is made up of
and Charles Briggs who appear to agree on a
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selection process no more restrictive than we now
have. Some among these individuals would favor
sending more senior officers to these schools.
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c. The second group of officers would favor added
restrictions on the selection of officers. - 25X1A
-believes that the National War College is
only for the few officers engaged in inter-agency
liaison and national security policy determination.
The National War College is not for the majority
of DDP officers. sees the National 25X1A
War College as useful for operational officers back
from the field and prior to a new assignment.
agree that
attendance at the Air War College should be
contingent on assignment requiring a knowledge
of the military. would limit
attendance at the Advanced Management course to
officers who need a substantive knowledge of
business.
believe that the Armed Forces Staff College should
be reserved for senior officers headed for
assignment involving military command relationships,
but Harry Fisher believes that nobody over GS-13
should attend this school. would 25X1A
recommend the Industrial College of the Armed
Forces for those assigned to planning and
programming at a high level.
d. The third group saw the selection process in terms
of public relations as well as training. 25X1A
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College of the Armed Forces) believe that the ability
to represent the Agency should be one of the ma'or
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now talking about the Advanced Management Program,
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believes that the value of representation is the
major benefit of the course. 25X1A
advocates that the ability to represent the Agency
should be the prime consideration in the selection
of a candidate for the Advanced Management
Program.
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HUGH T. CUIGINGJAM
Director of Training
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