COURSE REPORT FOR CIA TODAY AND TOMORROW #3-76

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: July 16, 1976
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16 July 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
Special Programs Officer
SUBJECT Course Report for CIA Today and Tomorrow
# 3- 76
1. CIA Today and Tomorrow #3-76 was held in the
Headquarters Auditorium from Tuesday through Thursday,
15-17 June 1976. A fourth day solely for members of the
Directorate of Operations and others on rotational assign-
ment to that Directorate followed on Friday, 18 June.
Copies of the schedules of the two programs are Attachment A.
A roster of participants in the 3-day program is Attachment B.
The End-of-Course Data form is Attachment C.
2. This running of the course began in what has become
almost a condition of its being--frenzied last-minute adapta-
tion to an unexpected circumstance. In this case the unex-
pected circumstance was the scheduling of an address to CIA
employees in the Auditorium by Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger at noon on the day of the planned opening, 15 June.
Auditorium preparations for that otherwise welcome event
required delaying the start of CIA Today and Tomorrow from
0830 to 1330, when registration began. The formal program
began at 1400. The foreshortened time regrettably required
cancellation of two scheduled speakers, William Parmenter,
Director of Current Intelligence, who was to have discussed
"World Issues Facing Intelligence," and 25X1A
Deputy to the Assistant to the DCI, whose topic was to have
been "CIA and the Press."
3. The program suffered other mishaps. Dr. Sayre Stevens,
newly appointed Deputy Director for Intelligence, was forced
by illness to cancel his discussion of "Intelligence Production
in Support of Policy," another setback to the opening day.
He was ably replaced, however, by Paul Walsh, Associate
Deputy Director for Intelligence. The assassination of the
U.S. Ambassador and Economic Counselor in Lebanon required
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the cancellation on Thursday of the planned discussion of
the Directorate of Operations by Theodore Shackley, Associate
Deputy Director. On a few moments' notice 25X1A
Deputy Chief, Soviet/East European Division, made is sched-
uled appearance an hour earlier and broadened his planned
o is to provide an excellent overview of operations.
, Deputy to the Chief, East Asia Division for
China, stepped into the vacant hour with an engaging dis-
cussion of operations against the China target. Mr. Shackley
was kind enough to agree to speak instead on Friday, on the
day intended for Directorate of Operations personnel. We
invited the entire class to hear his discussion, and a great
many remained to hear Chief of the Domestic 25X1A
Collection Division.
114. Despite the frequently shifting sands, CIA Today
and Tomorrow went smoothly and apparently successfully. A
brief evaluation at the conclusion revealed no criticism
except the inadequacy of the audio for the presentation by
E. H. Knoche, then Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Designate. Informal comments by the participants were
favorable. The class was especially appreciative of the 25X1A
triumvirate of senior officers who spoke on Thursd afternoon:
George Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence;
Associate Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence Community;
and, finally, Mr. Knoche. These presentations provided an
excellent summing up of the state of the Agency and the
Community, and an optimistic look into the future.
5. In the initial planning, the course manager had
sought to introduce to the employees all of the key leader-
ship of the Agency, especially the "new faces" who in recent
weeks had been elevated by Mr. Bush to positions in top
management. In addition to Mr. Bush and Mr. Knoche,
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Community, and Deputy to the DCI for National
Intelligence, were invited, but found it necessary to decline.
As mentioned, Sayre Stevens, the newly appointed Deputy
Director for Intelligence, was forced by illness to cancel
at the last minute. William Wells, the newly appointed
Director for Operations, had other commitments. John F.
Blake, Deputy Director for Administration, who agreed in the
early stages of planning to open the program with a discussion
of "CIA Today," was forced to decline by an anticipated
absence from the city. Our effort to introduce the new
faces among Deputy Directors was successful in one respect,
at least. Leslie C. Dirks, Deputy Director for Science and
Technology, appeared as scheduled, providing a useful overview
of the work of his Directorate.
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6. Although the program followed the pattern of previous
runnings, there were a few new features. Harry Fitzwater,
Director of Training, in addition to welcoming the class,
provided a helpful summary of the Agency's very recent
history and showed slide photographs of the leadership and
charts of organizational changes. In place of the usual
single-speaker discussion of "The Administration of Intelligence,"
that topic was handled by a panel chaired by Michael Malanick,
Associate Deputy Director for Administration, which consisted
25X1A of: Frederick Janney, Director of Personnel; 25X1A
De ut Director of Medical Services; and
25X1A Acting Director of Security. The panel
format proved an excellent means of covering areas of personal
concern to employees. Another successful innovation was the
25X1A back-to-back scheduling of Assistant for Information,
Directorate of Administration, who discussed the records and
25X1A other problems presented by the Freedom of Information and
Privacy Acts, and Deputy Chief,
Information Systems Analysis Staff, Directorate of Administration,
who discussed some of the solutions data processing offers
for records management.
7. Of the 170 re istra n the course-, only139
participated run_ n_ inf. Although these were fairly
evenly balanced among the Directorate of Administration
(48), the Directorate of Intelligence (32), and the Directorate
of Operations (49), there were only 8 representatives from
the Directorate of Science and Technology.* For the first
time in our recollection, two participants were from the
Intelligence Community Staff. The ages of participants
ranged from 19 to 62, and their grades from GS-03 to GS-15.
The average age was 36, and the average grade was GS-08.
Seventy-eight women and sixty-one men were enrolled. The
predominance of women may explain the relatively low average
grade compared to the average age.
8. The course manager was ably assisted during the
3-day program by of the Office of Training who
shared with the course manager the introduction of speakers.
Training Assistant, provided her usual invaluable
help in registration and preregistration. Because the 25X1A
Special Programs Officer was involved with the Brookings
program on 18 June, of the
Intelligence Institute, Office of Training, undertook the
management of the fourth day. From all accounts, the day
went very well.
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*The Training Officer of DDS$T says this small enrollment
was happenstance and that the program is very popular in his
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9. Our thanks go not only to these always-helpful
members of the staff of the Intelligence Institute but to
the equally helpful Training Services Staff who made five
videotapes of presentations to CIA Today and Tomorrow. They
also showed a lunchtime videotape of the talk given on
8 June by Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters, then retiring
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, in the CIA Guest
Speaker Program. His talk, "Reminiscences of a Military
Officer's Career in Intelligence," was as enthusiastically
received by this class as by the Guest Speaker audience.
10. Recommendations: The purpose of CIA Today and
Tomorrow, to update the-participants on recent developments
and future programs in the Agency and the Intelligence
Community, is well met by the standard format and was, we
believe, well met by this running. The course seems to have
an excellent reputation, and no major changes are required.
There is reason for concern, however, about the frequency
with which conflicting top-level scheduling disrupts this
course. We realize that events such as the visit of Secretary
Kissinger will always occur at the guest's convenience and
not ours. Nonetheless, it is suggested that the size and
significance of the course warrant placing it well in advance
on the calendars of the Deputy Director for Administration
and the Director of Central Intelligence and his Deputies as
a way of minimizing the possibility of conflict.
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