OPERATIONS SUPPORT FACULTY PERIODIC REPORT OF ACTIVITIES (1 MARCH 1958 THRU 31 AUGUST 1958)

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• Publication Date: August 31, 1958
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OPERATIONS SUPPORT FACULTY
PERIODIC REPORT OF ACTIVITIES
(1 March 1958 thru 31 August 1958)
Courses: Operations Support, Administrative Procedures, Budget and Finance
Procedures.
1. Nine courses have been run during this period with a total of 255
students. This includes the Administrative Procedures course presented at
25X1A or the benefit of administrative employees stationed there.
2. Administrative Procedures has been revised to excise those subjects
that more appropriately belong in Clerical Training. As it is currently
constituted, Administrative Procedures Phase I consists of two weeks of
headquarters support subjects; Phase II concentrates on overseas subjects.
Our goal is to have all administrative personnel take the first two weeks
shortly after they enter on duty. Phase II can then be taken shortly be-
fore leaving for overseas.
3. Lectures, discussions and critiques for all our courses have been
taped with notations on each tape as to subject, instructor, length of
lecture, date and course.
25X1A 4. Plans had been made with A & E Staff, to review our
course materials, lectures, tests and evaluations. This was in line with
our projected course changes for the coming year. It has now been deter -
2 5X1A mined that will not be available until after the beginning of
the year since he is involved with the current JOT program.
5. The Faculty have been pursuing the proposal of flexowriter training
requirements in liaison with of Clerical
Training has been kept advised.
25X1A 6. The Faculty had a conference with (Operations School)
regarding suggested changes in the next edition of the Tradecraft Manual.
These changes, in some instances, were quite extensive and will be taken up
with the editorial board when discussions have reached that stage.
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7. Our memorandum on the proposed course for Station Chiefs and a
tentative course schedule has gone forward. Presumably this wi taken
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8. A staff study is being prepared by the officer handling DDP Clerical
Personnel regarding a specialized training course for all clericals hired for
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25X1A overseas assignments. Since I lericals will be hired this fiscal year
25X1A for DDP, Iof which will be scheduled for overseas assignments, we are
awaiting wor from DDP to assist on any requirements which can not be
handled by our present courses.
9. There has been close coordination with the Finance Division in
establishing an informal agreement that JOTs assigned to Finance will take
Budget and Finance Procedures before or shortly after starting their tour
in Finance.
10. An informal survey of the Personnel Office was accomplished by
interviewing each division chief in the Office of Personnel. Comments,
evaluations and recommendations concerning various courses were forwarded
in a memorandum on 13 March 1958. A valuable liaison function was performed
in conducting this survey. Not only did OTR benefit but the survey gave
added impetus to the training consciousness which is increasing steadily
throughout the Office of Personnel.
Courses evaluated during this survey were: Intelligence Orien-
tation, Operations Support, Administrative Procedures, Conference Leader-
ship, Management and Supervision, Operations Familiarization. External
training: American Management Association; Human Relations Course (Cornell
University); and Executive Management Training (University of Chicago).
11. In April the regulations regarding dispatches to and from overseas
installations were changed. As a result the dispatch lecture, student kits,
practice and test problems and visual aids were revised throughout both
courses.
12. A training film entitled "The Other Hat" has been produced with
the assistance of a member of our faculty and is presently being utilized
in Administrative Procedures and Operations Support to implement the in-
struction of Field Property Records at a Type II Station.
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25X1A 13. I Iwas detailed to this office on 23 June 1958
for the purpose of making a study of Operations Support.
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