WEEKLY REPORT OF SCHOOL OF INTELLIGENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS NO. 35, 27 AUGUST - 2 SEPTEMBER 1971

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• Publication Date: September 7, 1971
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7 September 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT . Weekly Report of School of Intelligence and
World Affairs No. 35, 27 August - 2 September 1971
COURSE ACTIVITIES
Advanced Intelligence Seminar
A pre-course session was held Friday, 3 September at Headquarters.
At that session the staff provided the students with an overview of the
course and raised basic administrative points. Several students offered
useful suggestions.
With last minute planning now underway, the course itself appears to
be shaping up for a successful launching. The over-all quality of scheduled
speakers is reasonably high, and commitments are generally firm. The
class itself, while limited to 25 in order to better establish a seminar
atmosphere,. has representation from all the Directorates.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Newly-acquired OSS Diary 25X1A9a
Walter Pforzheimer, Curator of HIC, has enriched historical
research materials with a newly-acquired ''first" -- a wartime diary written
by a top OSS official. It was penned byl head of
the OSS Planning Group, who took note -- and not immodestly, according to
Tom -- of Washington rumors that "Bill (Donovan) and I are running OSS."
recently died, and his son -- a Yale law school classmate of
orz eimer -- made the document available to him for examination and
evaluation. It is the first such personal, daily, inside account of OSS
that Tom has seen.
aged 60, ex-law professor, and hoping to retire to write stories,
25X1A9a was no mere chronicler or petty diarist. iI concentrated a keen mind,
a poetical style, and concern on the problems and issues that beset OSS,
the administration, and the country. He left a document chocker-block full
25X1A9a of "goodies" which defy summarization. Perhaps the most valuable single
section is II account of what was surely "the dark night" of the OSS
25X1A9a existence, the winter of 1943 when Roosevelt, according to Q was intent
upon suppressing Donovan as being too powerful and ambitious; here is an
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account of a Sunday morning when Donovan and II decided to resign
in the face of FDR's expressed wish to subordinate OSS to the G-2
rule of "the vicious bully, General Strong." Stoically contemplating
collapse, 0 concluded: "it has been a great adventure.... but this
is a treacherous life."
2. TDY tol
departed on an abrupt TDY to on Friday The
was requested because of his highly successful recent program for that
station. 25X1A9a
Chief, School of Intelligence
and World Affairs
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