MAGID STUDY OF DDI ORIENTATION FOR NEW PROFESSIONALS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: March 11, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Central Reference Service
THROUGH : Acting Chief, Information Services Group
Acting Chief, Western Hemisphere Division
FROM : Acting Chief, South America Branch
SUBJECT . MAGID Study of DDI Orientation for New
Professionals
1. I am in agreement with the recommendations of the
MAGID study. I disagree with the finding (paragraph 2) that
"The IWA course provides a view of the Agency as a whole and
is a good general course that should not be changed"
(emphasis added).
2. I took the IWA course (or whatever it was
some 6 years ago as a wet-behind-the-ears CT.
called then)
ana_ st took it last October. I looked at
syllabus for the course. It was most familiar.
It brought back lots of memories, especially of how confused
I got about what the hell ing about, and
how rom DDO were bright
spots because they were highly entertaining (or did they show
up in the "Intelligence Orientation" portion that preceded the
IWA section?).
3. I admit that I'm talking about the course from a
distance even greater than the peanut gallery, but I think
the IWA course could be shaped up a bit. Specifically, I
think there's too much emphasis on Communism and not enough
on how the Agency ticks. And the treatment of the Intelligence
Community is definitely fast-brush. The description of the
course is a bit misleading (page 51 in your Training Catalog).
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4. Now, you can only stuff so much material into any
given course. All the same, a more leisurely and careful
look at the Intelligence Community would be useful, as well
as a good rundown of interworkings: Take a non-sensitive
NSSM, for instance, a relatively short one, and run it
through from start to finish, including a resultant NSDM.
Let the class read the whole thing. This could even double
as a "near-current" foreign policy issue of high interest
to the US Government.
5. As for a "view of the Agency as a whole"--pick some
operation where all four Directorates had a piece of the
action and go through it step by step. Not a hypothetical
one, but a real one.
6. MAGID is recommending that people take the IWA
course between the 3rd and 9th months after EOD. Most will
not know all that much about anything at this stage of their
budding careers. It is therefore all the more important
that the IWA course be substantively balanced, that fast-
brush treatments be avoided, and that presentations of the
Agency and its relationships with the White House, the
National Security Council (staff), and the Intelligence
Community be carefully and thoughtfully presented. Things
will not always work out as described, of course--but good
examples of how they can, should, and sometimes do work
should be stressed.
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