WEEKLY REPORT - OFFICE OF TRAINING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06209A000100040014-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 21, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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21 September 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for i nagement and Services
SUBJECT
STATINTL
Weekly Report - Office of Training
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Advanced Mena cement pre ram
4embers attending the program have completed the two-day
unit on Communication and Leadershi . Mr. Carl Duckett,
the 1/S4T, talked on the Agency's internal communication
problems and Mr. John Blake, f/personnel., discussed leader-
ship patterns. On the evening of 17 September the class
met at Headquarters for a session with Mr. Richard McCurdy,
Associate Administrator for NASA, and formerly an executive
with Shell Oil Corporation.
Interim concensus of the instructional staff is that the
program is going along very well.
ican Area Seminar
STATINTL
The Tueesda 18 September, session of the Seminar was
addressed by on the subject
of U.S. relations with Latin America.
d Chile.
took him into other areas: general U.S. policy, Venezuela,
ecialist on the Caribbean, was hoping to concentrate
what on the problem of the Panama Canal but the studen
A ous ro5r a
The unusually large number of telephone inquiries about
the iprogra following publication this week of Employee
STATINTL Bu etin , indicates an unprecedented interest
the main attractions.
VPn up. Findings suggest Agency-sponsorship is one of
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Instructors for the 22 courses have been assigned aithougi
in some cases, officials at the Northern Virginia Regional
Center of the University of Virginia have not given final
approval. Classes will begin the week of 2 October, and all
except those in information science training will be held
in the Headquarters Building. They will run from 5:30 to
approximately eight o'clock on Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday. There will be no Headquarters classes on ionday
or Friday evenings.
; Developments
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A. Visit of SAT Executive
On 27 Santemb r_1 STAT
1will. to to selected
O 'g. and DDO personnel on his organization's course on
management and human relations skills. Two of CT:s
instructors recently visited the 0 studied the course
vial and believe the course may be ads table to
clandestine aspects of our work, particularly with respect
to techniques of persuasion and manipulation. Study will
be given to further assistance from the Institute, partic-
ularly from the standpoint of conducting a
special course on the subject.
westieaker Program
The open no presentation of the Guest Speaker Program
by Professor in the Headquarters
Auditorium on October , 100-1900 hours will be attended
by the twenty members of the current Senior Seminar and
the members of the special running of the USSR Country
Survey. Participants in the Midcareer Course, which will
close on S October, will also be offered an opportunity
to attend the brzezinski presentation as a special add-on
to the course.
Five hundred tickets will be distributed by the end of
his week to the four Directorates, to the U/ICI, and,
through the Executive Officer of the IC Staff, to the member
ences of the Intelligence Community for when one hundred
tickets have been reserved.
STATINTL Deputy Director of OCT has informed OTR
Mr. Colby plans to invite Professor to
tar the lecture.
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. Senior Seminar
of O/LC has informed us that Congressman
Lucien N. Nedz&, Chairman of the Intelligence Operations
Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, has
accepted our invitation to meet with members of the Seminar
on Wednesday, 14 November, from 0930-1030 hours. The session
will be in the Headquarters Building. We expect Congressman
Nedzl'. to discuss Congressional-CIA relationships.
D. USSR Country Survey
The course will be conducted from 1 to 12 October.
Although originally scheduled at the re nest of there
are now ten employees enrolled from re NPIC , , and the
SB Division, W. Additional enrollments are expected.
The S Division also plans to have some of its officers audit
selected parts of the course.
E. Records 4ana ement Training
Because of the retirement of Chief Instructor of the
Records Management course, OTR cancelled its planned fallSTATINTL
schedule for these one-day programs.
Chief, Information Systems Analysis Staff, DDM4S, has since
notified us that his office is preparing to reinstate the
rog~ram and will conduct the first in a 'series of p ro rans
egi~nni.n. 14 January 1974. We have assured ISTATINTL
of our administrative support should he need it.
F. OrIentatian for Traini g
fficers
We have set Thurda , 11 October, as the date for
next orientation for the Agency's Training Officers. Present
plans call for a tightly programmed half-day session, to
include a tour of the now information science training facil-
ities. We are hop ing to make it more of a participatory
program than has been the case heretofore.
G. Self-Stuff Films
In response to a request from STATINTL
arrangements have been made to leave the -*tans ement
by Objectives" and " otivation" cassettes II after th, TATINTL
Support Officers' Conference. plans to show the
films to personnel on 26 - 28 September
Alfonso Rodriguez
Director of Training
STATINTL
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