A SENIOR SCHOOL FOR THE AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00308A000100010024-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: September 10, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORA111)1114 FOR: Executive
A Senior School for t1w Agency
1. This memorandtm offers a suggestion for your consideration.
2. The Director has expressed his concern with the development of
senior officers with broad multi-Directorate competence. We have been
struggling with an Inter-Directorate Rotation Plan. The Office of Personnel.
has studied the problem of Senior Succession and Succession Development.
The Career Training Program starts with an Agency-wide exposure. The
Mid-Career Course enrol.:lment is also Agon^y-wide and, as you kno:?r, class
after class has remarked on the 1:.igh value they place on the exposure
to people and things outside their own Offices and Directorates. Some
of us--certainly not all or I wo'aldn't be writing this memorandum--hold
that there is still too much parochialism in spite of the CTP and 1M1id-
Career approach. I am convinced that much of this comes from senior,
but not top, levels.
3. I am under no delusion i.;hat what I am about to suggest will
correct all ills, but it could be one step nearer. It is possible that
the forces of time would bring improvement but it is not probable and
even if it were, we can't afford to gait. We need some formal, regular,
organized means of raising the level of knowledge, understanding, and
appreciation of the work, purpose, and accomplishments of all Agency
components by senior employees. A logical. move would be a training
course at the senior level which continued and complemented the Junior
Professional.-and Mid-Career Courses. On the national level this has
been recognized and given substance in the Federal Executive Institute.
As a starter, I suggest a four weeks course, out of town, limited to
twenty participants, three times a year, supergrades only, under 55.
In time, tile frequency could be cut back to include only the new 16's
for the year. The structuring of the course should be left to the
Director of Training. I would sec a few lectures by the Director,
yourself, and the Deputies, but with most of the emphasis on contribu-
tions to the class by the members of the class in various formats.
4+. I suggest you discuss with the Deputies and the Director the
desirabi.l.ity of establishing a senior training course as one means of
improving the preparation of officers for key roles.
ert. S. Wattle
Director of Persoiulel
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