THE SELECTION AND TRAINING OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINEES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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29 May 1952
THE SELECTION AND TRAINING
of
PROFESSIONAL TRAINEES
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With regard to trainees for overt activities, including overt personnel
amigned to covert Offices, it is recommended that:
a, All new personnel recruited to fill professional positione in
the Agency be required to go through a training program in
order to give them an adequate basic intelligence background.
Exceptions may be made for individuals who have had previous high..,
level intelligence experience?
;20 The present Professional Training Program in the CIA Intelligence
School be reorientated and expanded as speedily as possible into
a Professional Selection and Training Program to give all new
professional personnel a broad yet intensive intelligence training.
Specialized training, including languages area and operational
training, will be handled in other parts of the training program,
c. The curriculum of the CIA Intelligence School, including recommended
readings be revised to cover sUbjects of particular interest to
Offices and be coordinated with TRS to reduce duplication in the
curricula.
cl4 A selection board to be known as the Professional Selection Panel
be established under the direction of the CIA Career Service Board
It would consist of fiVe voting members and three advisory members
as follows:
TWO representatives from the overt Offices.
Two representatives from the covert Offices.
One representative from a Deputy Director's Office - each of
the Deputy Directors DD/Ps DD/A and DD/I - to be succeesively
represented, .
(4) Three advisory representatives, one each from the Personnel
Oface, the Inspection and Security Office and the Office
Training,
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The Panel will review selection standards for and the qualifi-
cations of ell candidates up to and including the grade GS-/1
for overt and semi-covert professional positions in both the
overt and covert Offices and will finally approve on behalf of
the Agency the selection of all professionel personnel in these
categories o In cam of an adverse finding against an applicant
by the Panel the appropriate Assistant Director may appeal to
his Deputy Directors whose decision will be final,. The Panel
mill also, when requested by an Assistant Director, arrange for
testing of a prospective employee in the GS.12 - 15 category,
review his qualifications, and make recomeendations to the
requesting Office.
e Personnel requirements of Offices for professional positions be
submitted to the Personnel Office which will inform the Pro-
fessioaal Selection Panel and the Oifice of Training of the
estimated intake so that they may plan accordingly. All recruit-
ment will be undertaken against authorized slots in consumer
Offices, except that a small nunber of slots will be set aside
for the temporary accommodation of draft-eligible candidates who
are brought here for indoctrination before entering the Armed
Services.
The program to establish consultent-contacts in colleges and
universities (project Review Committee Project TRN/ADP-92-52 of
22 October 195/) to recruit undergraduate and graduate studeTte
be vigorously implemented and ultimately expanded.
No subsidy be given to university students prior to their CIA
employment. No specific substantive guidance be given by the
consultant-contacts to undergraduate students. In certaih-cases
consultant-contacts may suggest that selected graduate students
specialize in practical subjects or foreign aspects of their
fields which might be useful if they should enter the intelligence
fieldo
Consultant-contacts be briefed regarding the relation between
recruiting for overt use in both overt and covert Offices and
that for deep-cover activities.
Special security measures be taken to prevent sdbversive infiltrae
tion into the Agency through the trainee gyetem and that '186
Office be given adequate bee-king in money and personnel to carry
out these mesaures, ConsUltantecontacte be briefed thoreughly
regarding the danger of subversive infiltration into the Agency
through the trainee eyetem,
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J. Approaches by CIA representatives to universities or companies
in the United States, for the recruitment or training of overt
personnels including overt personnel for the covert Offices, be
coordinated with the Contact Divisions Office of Operations.
k. No organized publicity be given the trainee recruiting program
and that publicity of any kind regarding any aspects of the
Professional Selection and Training Program be diammnempel.
2. All candidates for professional positions in grades up to and
including GZ-11 be given a one-day battery of tests before final
commitments for employee* are made; this testing to be given
after the applicant has been recommended by recruiters and after
Tflraild other forms have been reviewed by the Personnel Offrgr7
ee The testing in 1. abates be Carried out in leading colleges and
universities by competent consultants (or by a field unit) and
in Washington by a headquarters unit.
me The sequence of events in carrying out the Professional Selection
and Training Program should be as follows:
(1) Statement by Offices and other components of their needs ftr
new personnel to fill professional positions in the OSe5
through GS-11 categories.
(2) Locating, contacting, and screening of candidates in univer-
sities, industries* and the Armed Services by the Personnel
Office through consultant-contacts or by other recruitment
techniques.
(3) Fre-security check by I&SO.
(4) Testing of candidates periodically et selected locations in
the field and continuously in Headquarters.
(5) Screening ane shopping of candidates to Offices by the
Personnel Office.
16) Assessment, (To be carried outset the option of the obligating
Offices between steps 5 and 10).
(7) Obligation of slots by Offices.
(8) Security investigation initiated by I&SO
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(9) Security Clearance.
(10) Review and decision by Professimal Selection Panel.
(11) Notification to oardidate by Personnel office.
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(13) Entrance in CIA Intelligence School.
(14) Review of Training record by Professional Selection Panel.
(15) Assumption of duty status in office obligating slot. (See
Step 7),
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