OFFICE OF TRAINING BULLETIN TABLE OF CONTENTS

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1956
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ABLE OF CONTENTS
SOLILOQUY FOR SUPERVISORS
From the desk of Matthew Baird, Director of Training . . . . . . ..
Americans Abroad -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Integrated Russian Program (Phase 11) . . . . . . . . ... . . . 9
Special Lecture Series:
Sphere of Indian Influence in Southeast Asia . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Special Lecture Series
In the Major Languages of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Noontime Movie Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SELECTION OF AGENCY CANDIDATES TO ATTEND SENIOR DEFENSE
COLLEGES AND OTHER QUOTA SCHOOLS
By Chief, Plans and Policy Staff/ OTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
REGISTRAR'S REMINDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
OTR AND AGENCY TRAINING OFFICER DIRECTORIES . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Soliloquy for Supervisors *
(With apologies to Hamlet and Shakespeare.)
To train or not to train,
That is no problem. Surely 'tis wiser in a Chief
To spot well in advance his training needs,
And by a prudent plan fulfill them.
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Fall not by chance alone: they land the most
Upon the heads of those who close their eyes
And say, "We have no time to train-
We have too much to do!" "Too much to do,"-
Aye, there's the rub, for while the poor souls struggle hard
To do their daily work, they fall behind,
Their errors mount, their frantic efforts fail,
And soon they are immersed up to their ears,
Within a very sea of woe.
From Personnel Administration magazine, page 21,
Sept. - Oct. 1956 edition
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HAVE YOU A QUESTION CONCERNING LAN-
GUAGE AND AREA INSTRUCTION?
Questions regarding policies,proce-
dures, and substance concerning lan-
guage and area instruction should be
directed to those Language and Area
School/OTR offices listed in the OTR
and Training Offs er Directories sec-
tion of the OTR Bulletin.
Individual class instructors in the
Language and Area School include Con-
tract Esployees and personnel from
other offices assisting the Office of
Trainingin the conductof instruction;
they are less able than LAS staff mem
bers to give authoritative answers to
your questions.
OTR BIBLIOGRAPH32S AVAILABLE TO YOU
Copies of the following specially
prepared bibliographies are availa-
ble and may be requested through
your Training Officer, or by call-
ing the Chief, OTR Library, ex-
tensi
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on
Espionage - A Selected Bibliog-
rra of Books in Ger an and Erg-
li-sh
, TR Fn F46. 0-531, 3.0 ages,
Unclassified, October 1956; A Sg-
lected Reading List of Economic
Conditions in Ceylon, China, For-
mo. a., a. Ind-- ono sia, Jam, _nd
Pakistan, TR RM 0-530, 13 pages,
Unclassified, September 1956; Cover
Stories ( Selected excerpts from
books),, TR P14 0-520, 14 pages, Se-
cret., July 1955,
MII;CT PUFLICATIONE' AVAILABLE TO YOU
The OTR Library has a number of
select publications on the subjects
of communism, espionage, guerrilla
warfare, resistances and survival.
You may request copies by calling
the Chief, OTR Library, extension
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Titles include:
Anstaer Please L ue sti ons for Gormu -
nists by Stephen Naft
The Strategy of Communist Infil-
tration The Case of Czechoslovakia
by No Duehaoek
It altos a Russian to Beat a
Rus-
sian by t/allace Carroll
A Partial Documentation of the
Sorg Es iio a Case - USA/EC
Guerrilla by Samuel B. Griffith
Guerrilla il= a The Or n
and Employment of Irregulars by
the Greek General Staff
Guerrilla W fare (translation from
the Chinese) by Mao Tse-Tung
Operations A-ainst Guerrilla For-
- Special Text 31-20-1, Infan-
try School, Fort Benning, Georgia
Of Resistance by Julian Amery
Resistance Movements in the War by5X1A
Colin Gubbins
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CABLE & DISPATCH REFRESHER TRAINING
GIVEN 36 OSI PERSONNEL
Special cable and dispatch refresh-
er training recently was given 36
members of the Office of Scientific
tember
Administrative
Training instructors, held two spe-
cial classes requested by OSI.
OTR CONDUCTS SPECIAL NTATION OF
WRITING 'WORKSHOP FOR S TAT S FE C
will present a special running of
the Writing Workshop Beginning 31
October 1956. . Sessions will be held
Wednesday and Friday afternoons for
five weeks, at 1717 H Street.
Each class consisted of three morn-
ing sessions, the first two concerned
cables and the third, dispatches.
Passage writing techniques; the
Agency's cable format; dispatch sub-
ject; and contents and format were
explained in detail. Class work was
based on current cable traffic and
dispatches of interest to OSI.
Requestsfrom components interested
in such special presentations should
be directed to Chief Intelligence
School/OTR, extension
KEY ASSIGN1ENTS IN THE OPS SCHOOL
Content of this special presenta-
tion remains the same as in regular
classes: generally, a short review
of writing fundamentals, with a look
at the most common writing pitfalls.
During the 30-hour course students
work on material from their jobs,
and do standard exercises in accu-
racy, conciseness and clarity of ex-
pression.
Dates for regular presentations of
the Writing Workshop course are avail-
able to you in the Intelligence School
Long-Term Schedule, OTR Catalog.
Components interested in special
presentations may direct inquiries
to Chief, Intelligence School/OTR,
extension
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CZECH NEWSPAPER READER PUBLISHED --
SECOND IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES
Language and Area School/OTR, has
just published the Czech Newspaper
Reader, unclassifie . For use in
ntermediate and advanced classes, it
consists of a compilation of articles,
printed items, and cartoons from
current Czech newspapers and journals,
representing the fields of sociology,
economics, politics, sciences, sports,
the arts and other items of intelli-
gence interest.
Produced by photo offset process,
it contains 70 pages, and is styled
in the popular "pocket book" size;
type is "blown-up" to about twice
original newspaper size.
The Czech Newspaper Reader is the
second of a series being produced by
the Eastern Studies Staff/LAS to
remedy the lack of commercial texts
with "area" type materials and read-
ings of special interest to intelli-
gence personnel. There are in prepa-
ration Slovak and Polish newspaper
readers. Eventually, Hungarian,
Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian
21A readers will be produced.
You may request a of the Czech
reader by calling
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6 November 20 November
4 December 18 December
(Typewriting: 1315 hours
Shorthand : 1400 hours)
These tests are given in Room 2300,
Alcott Hall, second floor, Wing C.
Supervisors who wish to have em-
ployees tested should get in touch
with their Personnel Placement Offi-
cers. The officers will arrange for
test registration.
Usually, employees who do not meet
the Agency clerical skills standards
in these tests should be enrolled in
the Clerical Refresher Program, which
is listed in the OTR Catalog,, courses
B-12 to B-19?
LAC AGENCY GUESTS TO BE HOSTED
BI-MONTHLY BY OFFICE OF TRAINING
AT INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS EXHIBIT
On 8 November, some 50 members of
other IAC Agencies will attend the
regularly scheduled showing of the
Intelligence Products Exhibit in the
R & S Building.
This is a part of a new program.for
broadening the usefulness of the
exhibit. Every two months IA C
personnel will be invited to attend
so that they may become increasingly
familiar with CIA activities.
CLERICAL SKILLS QUALIFICATION TESTS
SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER
Clerical Skills Qualifications
Tests in shorthand and typewriting,
administered to on-the-job employees
who must meet Agency standards, will
be given every other Tuesday during
November and December as follows: -~
Invitations are extended to members
of other agencies by the components
of CIA which deal most closely with
them. The coordination of the invi-
tations, including the setting up of
quotas, the requesting of security
clearances for visitors invited by
the non-OTR CIA components, and arrange-
ments for transportation to and from
the R&S Building, are handled by the
staff of Intelligence Orientation/OTR,
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SEMINARS IN CONt tSATIONAL RUSSIAN
NOW OPEN FOR RE;ISTRRATION
Two-hour seminars in conversational
Russian begin this month. On succes-
sive Wednesdays, 0930 to 1130 hours,
native or bilingual instructors will
guide two 8-student groups-one at the
intermediate and one at the advanced
level of proficiency-in informal dis-
cussion concerning current events and
a variety of other interesting topics.
Language and Area
c oo , m es the point that,
"chile those who first apply for the
seminars naturally will have prefer-
ence, a personal interview is required
of each applicant in order to deter-
mine his or her present proficiency
in conversational Russian." Reserva-
tions in each of the seminars depend
on the interviews, of course.
W'ednesda : 0930 to 1130 hours
nterme ate:
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Contact your Training Officer in
regard to application. He will
arrange for the submission of neces-
sary forms and for your interview
wit
NEXT INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS EXHIBIT
SCHEDULra NOVElBER, THURSDAY
Members of the Agency are invited
to attend the Intelligence Products
Exhibit, scheduled to be shown in the
Auditorium of the Recreation and
Service Building on Thursday, 8 No-
vember, between 0930 and 1200 hours.
Designed primarily as an integral
part of Intelligence Orientation,
course B-3 in your R Catolg, t e
exhibit has been found be of great
interest and significance to members
of the Agency. The exhibit is unique
in that it presents in one room a
comprehensive view of the great e r
part of the intelligence activities
of CIA.
GUIDANCE TO PREPARATION OF FORM 1025
Training Officers responsible for
the preparation monthly of the Indi-
vidual Training Code Sheet, Form No.
1025 in some instances have reported
unnecessary information relative to
the student's office of assignment.
The blocks in paragraph 2 of Section
I and II are to be completed with
only two levels of organization shown.
Examples:
A student from the Office of Train-
ing should be reported as:
Of f
S
Div
TR
A student from a DD/P area division:
A student from a DD/I component:
Off Div
1I OCR
Components sponsoring training are
reported similarly in Section II,
paragraph 2.
Information concerning administra-
tion of Form 1025 is available by con-
tacting Chief Processing Section/OTR,
extension W 25X1 A
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HANDLING QUANTITATIVE DATA
COURSE DEVELOPED FOR ORR ANALYSTS
At the request of the Office of
Research and Reports, the Office of
Training has initiated a course for
ORR analysts: Handling Quantitative
Data. The course covers most of the
fundamentals of statistics needed in
the solution of day-to-day problems
faced by Economic Area personnel.
Because of this need for specialized
training, current overt data are be-
ing used to supplement a statistics
text and laboratory workbook, and as
the course progresses most of the
instructional materials will be ORR
research data.
ncipal instructor is William C.
0" Deputy Chief, Language and
Area School/OTR. From time to time,
key officials of ORR will partici-
pate in the program.
The course began in "M" Building
with 21 students on 9 October and
will continue for 30 sessions of 1*
hours, meeting twice weekly.
Requests from components interest-
ed in such special presentations
should be directed to the Chief,
Lan e and Area School/OTR, exten-
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INTEGRATED RUSSIAN PROGRAM (PHASE II) 7 JANUARY TO 5 APRIL 1957
The second phase of the integrated program of language and area train-
4 7 January 1957. Classes will be held six hours
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The second phase of this course is designed to increase knowledge of
the USSR and to improve the student's knowledge of the Russian language.
Lectures and assignments will be based on area materials, including geog-
raphy, history, economics, politics, literature, art, theory and practice
of communism, propaganda, arny and navy, and intelligence operations.
Whereas the first phase of the program deals primarily with pre-revolution-
ary Russia, the second phase will deal primarily with Russia and the USSR
from 1917 to the present.
A minimum of two years part-time, or nine months intensive, study of
Russian, or the equivalent, is a prerequisite to enrolling in this course,
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before 2 December 6. an interview wi e
Room 2605, Wing G. Quarters Eye, extension is
app icants.
Applications must be received by the Registrar, f ce o
th 4.1, in
tructor-
g
ing in Russian wil
a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 0840 -01030 hours) s) for 13 weeks.
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SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES: 12 OCTOBER TO
SPHERE OF INDIAN INFLUENCE IN SOUTHEAST -ASIA 21 DECEMBER
All CIA personnel interested in gaining additional knowledge on the
Sphere of Indian Influence in Southeast Asia are invited to attend the
f
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owing lectur Fidt 1016
es onrays a43-30 hour3 in Room 1
Building. Further information may be secured from
extension- Tou will, of course, wish to arra,
nor for authorization to attend the lecture(s).
S CH W U E
2 November BURMA A!' WORLD
Speaks
9 November MALAYA-INDEPENDENCE
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Speaker: Pufus Z. Smith, Officer in Charge
Malaya Affairs, SEA, Department of State
16 November INDONESIA WHICH WAY?
Speaker: Francis T. Underhill, Officer in Charge
Indonesia & Pacific Island Affairs, SPA,
Department of State
23 November FOOD AND P~
Speaker: OTR
7 December THE Ct:U'
Speaker: OTR
14 December FILMS ON THE AREA (1300-1630 hours)
21 December SYi RXIl l: INDIA - EAST, WEST OR NEUTRAL?
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