SENIOR SEMINAR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2000
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• Publication Date: March 10, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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b. Is Block II really worth two whole weeks? Granted, it
needs coverage and could not be handled in one week. I just
wonder at the investment involved in two whole weeks for
general updating which will be out of date in a matter of months.
10 March 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Directo]~ of Training
SUBJECT : Senior Seminar
1. On reviewing the course outline for the Senior Seminar, I
have the following suggestions for your consideration:
a. In Block II, I find no particular coverage of Europe.
It seems to me that the European Community is an important
economic and political 1a.nit well worth special attention.
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c. I commend your use of movies on a voluntary basis. I
suggest, however, you might put them onto free time or even
evening time and increase the number. There are a lot of good
movies that would be worthwhile seeing but are not worth taking
up class time during the; day.
d. Perhaps talk might cover it, but I
would suggest a nuts-and-bolts discussion of our relations with
substantial rethinking of the comfortable arrangements we have
had up to now.
uss how intelligence can help Defense and how CIA and DOD
an and should collaborate on operational as well as policy
e. The Defense day seems a little spotty. Rather than dis-
cussing Defense policy and R&D, I wonder if we should not dis-
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L How useful is the USIA presentation? I would think we
might get at least as much or more out of AID. This could
cover some of the fairly large ideas of reorganization of our
foreign aid.
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h. I would think that the NSC presentation is much more
important than a single speech by General Haig. I suggest a
working-level NSC staff member or even panel to tell us what
they expect from CIA and how we can help them better.
i. Is there a way to cover the organizational aspects of
NRO without getting into impossible security compartmentation
problems?
J. I found no particular discussion of the art of analysis.
In particular, I would think some imaginative discussion of
future changes in analysis, techniques to meet new demands
of volume and precision would be appropriate. This could in-
clude a good exposure to how Automated Data Processing could
help us more.
k. Similarly, I suggest a somewhat more operational look
at the production process, i. e. , the identification and trans-
mission of requirements, evaluations of our products, dis-
cussions of the present and possibly changed formats of our
finished production and the tangled subject of information
processing-
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Please don't take any of the above as engraved in stone, but
I would appreciate your informal comments (or possible disagree-
ment) on them.
W. E. Colby
Executive Director-Comptroller
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