CIA TRAINING SELECTION BOARD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200020049-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: October 24, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No. A.104
Date 24 October 1963
1. Will you take forthwith the necessary action to establish
a erxanentt CIA Training Selection Board. This Board will have the final
authority to recommend to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and
the Director of Central Intelligence those candidates selected for training
with particular reference to external training at the senior war colleges,
the State Department Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy and such other
programs as the Advanced Management School at Harvard. While this will
be the first priority for this Board, it should eventually become the
vehicle used for approval of major Agency training programs.
2. Inasmuch as the primary responsibility for training rests
with the Director of Training and the LOCI has recently reiterated his policy
of desiring that the Director of Training have cognizance and general super-
vision over all Agency training, the Director of Training should chair the
CIA Selection Board. The Director of Personnel or his Deputy and a
representative from the Comptroller's office should also be members of
the Board. There should be representatives on the Board fr"m each of the
four Directorates.
3. It will be a requirement that members of the Board will
have sufficient time available to devote several weeks each year to its
activities; e. g. , when selections are made for the senior service schools,
Board members will be required to devote full time to studying the back-
grounds and records of all candidates, and the Board will, as a body, have
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meaningful interviews with each of the;ddtteef. SSter, the Board will
be responsible for appropriate follow-through with the nominating components
in the event that the Board feels training other than that recommended would
be more appropriate for the individual.
(signed) LYman B. Kirkpatrick
l..yrmm B. Kirkpatrick
Executive btrector
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31 October 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
1. I have just read your Action Memorandum setting up the
CIA Training Selection Berl and I am in full accord with it.
I wish you would impress upon all the members of the Board,
either th.rengh brute strength, persosion, cajolery. or a written
directive.. that Candidates recommended for selection must be fully
representative of the " of people we pride ourselves on having n
the Agency. They should have a good knowledge of the entire operations
of the Agency and be fully capable of standing up on their, two feet and
representing the Agency in any discussion. There are many other
attributes that they should have that I will leave up to the hoard to
screen, but the point I am trying to make is that the Bosrd should
have a two-way ort ntation ?:;? that they arse. selecting a representative
of the Agency to go out Est other agencies and should therefore
be outst -f men, and`tbo other orientation is the value of the trail
to be accia&ed by the individual and how he will use that training when.
he return-tO Me- Agency. Under no circumstances should selection be
a re"'. x?d for l and faithful service or a means of farming a fellow,
out for a Year just to get rid of Mm.
3. may have' already done this sad if so please , sTfollow
through 'candidates are nominated.
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