SENIOR SEMINAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00308A000100010011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 27, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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27 December 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Training
SUBJECT : Senior Seminar
1. With reference to our conversation today, here are the
DDP`s comments passed to me after his meeting with the CS
officers who attended the first CIA Senior Seminar:
a. We should do more in the Seminar on international
communism, and on the critical importance of the Clandestine
Service role in the counterespionage field, including the
extensive overseas apparatus required to discharge this
responsibility properly.
b. CS panels appearing before the Seminar should be
better briefed. I under stand that the panel which was
charged with presenting a picture of the typical CS field
station overseas was s mplY not properly briefed and
prepared to work as a team in conveying such a picture
accurately and effectively. We Just did not do a good job
on this and invidious comparisons were drawn.
c The course should be given only at such times as
OTR can muster the requisite number of senior and fully
qualified student candidates. It should not be scheduled
for presentation at regular intervals because this will
dilute the quality of the! student group, as has happened
predictably in. the National Interdepartmental Seminar.
2. N,r Ape
d. Most of the CS Reps felt that the course could
easily be shortened, possibly to six weeks. Some felt
that, in the presentations and discussions of the situation
in several geographic areas, they have been burdened
with far more detail than they really needed to have and
that this was tiresome,
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ap e. Finally. it was suggested that the DDP should be
included somewhere along the line during the Seminar for
an appearance at an appropriate juncture.
DDP/TRO
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