TRAINING BRANCH HISTORY, CALENDAR YEAR 1951

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: April 10, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Communications Operations Division
Chief, Communioations Training Branch
Training Branch History, Calendar Year 1551
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Submitted herewith is a historical anti port of Comunications
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Introduction:
This report will summarise the program of the Communications
Training Branch in fulfilling its mission of providing proper and
adequate coMannioations training to appropriate personnel. The scope
of this ort wi such items as the development of the
and the concurrent reorganization of the branch;
e as a dent and growth of the uncleared training pool; the shift
in covert training from singletons to project personnel and associated
projects; the exploration and initiation of contracted training programs
with private firms the revision of coursed to keep abreast of all
develvments and the continually recurrmt problem of personnel turnover.
Progress and steady improvement will be noted; but room for
farther development and improvement is apparent. The real achievements
of this Branch cannot be substantiated oy the modit.m of a report, but
rather are dependent upon the quality of the product. Reorganization
and planning are worse than useless if the quality of the product does
not meet the requirements of the user.
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Uncleared Traini:q Pool:
One of the personnel problems involved in recruiting personnel has
been the time lag between interview an entry onto duty imposed by tie
involved or security clearance. This problem has had to aspects:
(1) the loss of potential employees to other jobs during this waiting
period and (2) the additional delay in ;e ting the man to his assignment
after he has bec -ired. Other components of the Agency had overcome
this obstacle by establishing holding pools - a device for bringing
personnel on duty and giving them useful instruction pertaining to their
ultimate assignment. The subject matter of those established pools 'were
of little or no value to communications personnel, so a Communications
Uncleared Pool was begun,.
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This Pool originally served solely as a holding area for radio
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iiirnal clearance permitting their transfer to
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On this basis, the pool was set up to provide code training and
was supplied apprppriate ecatipment* By meanz of ,the pool and .0. provisional
25X1A6a clearance for the it vas possible to give
radio operators three months of usetel, training prior to .their tell
clearance*
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Gradually, this pool became utilized for personnel other than radio
operators* The Curricula offered became more forealized and varied to
meet those new requirements* At the time of this report, non.olaasitied
courses are being offered in radio operating, radio theory, cryptography,
teleytpe operating and Wine.
Duting the year, the pool was supervised by tempararily-asaigned
personnel, frequently students, due to a lack of personnel within the
Training Breath* Especial mention should be made of theactivities of
Messrs* (resigned),
in assisting in the development
of a formalized curricula t is planned to permanently assign a modber
of the Training Branch to supervise the function during 1952 and to
formal4 establish the Uncleared Training Pool as Training Section No, 4.
Contract Train' Pr ?
It was regained that the facilities of the Training Branch were
not adequate for the large-scale training that eould be necessary in the
event of whole-scale hostilities, Training Branch vas authorised,
therefore, to establish contact with various commercial radio schools
with a view to ascertaining the capabilities of these institutions and of
developing 4 pilot program with one or more schools* Accordingly
preliminary contacts have been made with the
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contract mu negotiated to begin P emery )a es shing
a traieing program for 20 students, Under ter,lz of thils contract,. 25X1A5a1
made available for interview and screening by this Agency some 50
individuals. A screening of the rElcords of these persona reduced the
number to 25 and personal interviews eliminated 6 of the remaining
candidates. Discussions with the other tmo organizations have been
purely exploratory thus far.
Miscellaneoues
A survey we il.de of training films available and liuts of such
films have been distributed to members of the domootic treining staff.
A catalogue of such films will be distributed to the overseas areas in
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25X1C The Area Training Branot requested Commanications Training support
the paramilitary program conducted Such tapport consisted
providing a 110 hour briefing in radio and czyptography approximately
tour25X1A6a mov e their training location and requested ballAine
times. during the year. In tether the ATB indicated they 'goad
support froa the Cemaxanic ations Trairiing znnoh. AO0Ordtleys a building
plan vas tbrearded to Ani, a training curriculum planned and a /able of
Organisation forvarded for approval to support this xequtze*nt. The
25X1A6a program is expected to activate approximately 1 June 1952.
A document on clandestine communications training vas prepared tar
diatribution to the, field. It is envisaged that this document viI1 serve
ae a guide* particularly for those areas initiating now training program.
A similar document, viritten by the 7Alca Train ing Section, served as the
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