(UNTITLED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06210A000200030037-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: January 20, 1972
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 20/04/17: CIA-RDP78-0621 OA00020003QO 07-9
20 January 1972
# 118
1. I am quite satisfied that the BOC has attained all of the objectives
25X1A9a outlined in introductory letter, probably to a greater degree
even than the ins ructor staff -- and I -- can realize at this point. Thin
is the more satisfying in my case, and to anyone who has spent some time
working "on the outside and in the dark" to one.extent or another. I would
recommend the course to all of these types. I would recomiimend also that
the course be opened u;o _- and "pushed" -_ for non-CTers who have bee
operating in one way or another for a couple of years at least.
2. Re introductory comments to the classes: I would recommend that
the "staff versus students" themes and remarks aside'be dropped fromhthe
osaeninY commmzents. Several times during the course, I heard various
instructors mentioning a sense of antagonism developing between the two
groups. This antagonism -- although I don't think the spirit. ever
developed to the degree of true antagonism -- was in large measure
created from the moment of those opening comments. Instructor/staff
over-reaction then fostered and perpetuated it. Sitting somewhere
in between -- as neither instructor/staff nor member of the CT student
majority -- I was quite amazed at the way this spirit and related
attitudes developed on both sides, with little effort at more than
non-constructive bitching on both sides in reaction.
3. I have no detailed suggestions on working this. out, but I would
recommend that the portion of the course devoted to electronic/technical
gear, etc., either be expanded to include student. practice in specific
exercises or be limited to a fast "familiarization" conducted all in
one brief time frame. I felt quite frustrated when it seemed, because
of the large amount of time and "orientation" devoted to these tppics,
that we would indeed be using this gear... in field exercises of the
off-base t,rpe, and then found that we would not be doing so.
4. As previously suggested to Tradecraft instructors, I would
have found it quite helpful to be included in one of perhaps seven or
eight small groups of students, accompanied in town on one or more
field trips by an instructor who could point out on-the-spot various
pluses and minuses in specific town sites from a tradecraft point of
view.
25X1A2g
25X1A2g
25X1A2g
25X1A2g
25X1A14a
25X1A2g
25X1A2g
25X1A14a
5. _ per the post critique, this exercise probably
could getter be placed far earlier in the BOC. I would recommend
placing it in the same period as the (initial phases) exercise,
Further, I would recommend expanding the "scenariott"to allow
penetration and political action participation. Both measures would
raise the political action and CI sensitiviftes of all students for
later exercises. At the same time, it would greatly heighten the
' sense of participation.
6. The ~nd AOC surveillance exercises might well be combined,
both to allow greater time for coverage of other subject matters (still in
the tradecraft area; e.g., see para 4) and to allow better/more effective
coordination on the AOC-surveillance end. As it 'damned out, I believe ,
both AOCers and BOCers felt more frustration than anything else following
the AOC su ve' 1 ce
Approved for e ease 106 ~f7 : CIA-RDP78-0621 OA000200030037-9
C 0 N F I D E N T I A L
 C O N F I D E N T I A L
Approved For Release 20W/04/17: CIA-RDP78-06210A00020003ip 37-9
- 2 -
7. In s?.hort, I have no bones to pick either with staff or course
content, but instead some suggestions regarding allotments of emphasis
and time. Most of these, in fact, result more from my personal differences
in outlook, etc., and I am quite ready to admit that the BOC may well
be tailored properly at present to meet the needs/desires of the majority.
(I, for exa,,ple, would have liked to have had more hand-gun, etc., training,
but I know that most of the class already had "had that up to here". I
know, too, that this type of training is not that whiph reasonably would
find application in the CO's everday life.)
8. Finally, I could lik to express my appreciation of the
"counselor system" and to credit this s.,rstem with much of the result
in bringing home the over-all teaching points to be made in any course
of this type. I am particularly appreciative of the Efforts of my own
counselor and (I take special pleasure in imagining the expression on
your face, and the utterances on your lips, by the time you get to read
this, Mr, Counselor...) I still think he should forget about retirement
and plan to stay on.... no matter what.
Approved For Release 2000/04/17 : CIA-RDP78-06210A000200030037-9
C 0 N F I D E N T I A L