CHANGES IN THE SENIOR OPERATIONS COURSE TO ACCOMODATE PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE CHIEFS OF STATION SEMINAR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00308A000100020011-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 25, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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FOR: Director of Tralaing
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Changes in the Senior Operatic ne Course to Accommodate
Proposed Change in the Chiefs of Station Seminar
REFER CE . A. DO Operations Training Task Force Memo to DTR.
dtd 14 y 1975, Sub j : Senior Operations Course
B. COS Seminar Coordinator Memo to DTR dtd 29 May 1975,
Subj: Senior Operations Course
1. This memorandum is for your info;cmuation.
2. has reviewed referent memoranda.
The Senior Operations Course (SOC.) and the Chiefs of Station Seminar (COSS)
are two separate courses that cater to the needs of two separate groups of
officers. The SOC is for officers grade 139-12 through GS-16, the majority
of whom will be operations officers or senior operations officers in the
field rather than taking the SOC in preparation for a COS or Chief of Base
assignment. The COS Seminar is designed for officers who have been selected
to be Chiefs of Station or Chief's of Base and the curriculum has been developed
to assist them in their specific menagetne11t jobs as COS or COB. Obviously, a
number of subjects applicable to a senior operations officer are also applicable
to prospective COS and COs. If the Deputy Director of Operations determines
that all COS and COB must take the SOC as a prerequisite before assignment
abroad, it will be possible to drastically reduce if not eliminate the COS
Seminar. It is our view, however, that for a variety of reasons, the DDJ
unlikely to make such a policy determination. We further believe that
.he COS Seminar contains subject: matter 4hich is not relevant to operations
; for example, personnel m?nagement, finance, EEO, and a variety of
other administrative related subjects concerning Station management which are
outside the tl purview of operations.
3. We see nothing inherently wrong in a certain amount of duplication
between the COS Seminar and the SOC. For the most part, this duplication
management of operations rather than the various skills involved
handling.
;mar subjects. However, most: of the class will not be COS or COB thus
4. We also believe that by including COS and COB in the SOC, the
will have to expand to six weeks to include most, if not all of the COS
a considerable block of instruction will have little relevance to the needs
of the majority of the class. V e think there is value in separating the
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