LETTER TO DR. GERALD P. DINNEEN FROM E. H. KNOCHE

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• Publication Date: June 8, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

Central Intelligence Aggency
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Dr. Gerald P. Dinneen
Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Communications Command Control and Intelligence
The Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20301
8 JUN 1977
I believe that it might be advantageous at this time for
the Department of Defense (DoD) to consider participating more
actively in the training program conducted by the Information
Science Center (ISC) for the benefit of the Intelligence Community.
This training program on quantitative methods is designed to improve
the performance of intelligence analysts and managers.
Subsequent to a recommendation by the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, the Information Science Center was
established initially in FY 70 by the Department of Defense,
at the request of the Director of Central Intelligence, at_the
Defense Intelligence School. By FY 72, student enrollments in the
Center had grown to approximately 100 per year. Although Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) students constituted only a small. fraction
of the enrollment, the Agency provided two senior officers to assist
as instructors in the program.
Because of budgetary and personnel restrictions, the
Defense Intelligence School decided to close the Center. Mr. William
Colby, then the Executive Director of CIA, arranged for the responsi-
bility for the Center to be assumed by CIA. Physical facilities for
the Center were established in the Office of Training in August 1973.
Since that time, annual student enrollments have grown to about
450, and I anticipate that this year the total number of students will
be between 800 and 1,200. Although approximately one half of the students
in FY 76 were from CIA, I believe that a considerably larger percentage
of the students in FY 77 will be from DoD agencies due, in part, to
an increase of special courses and programs established to meet special
DoD requirements.
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When the Information Science Center moved to CIA, the
National Security Agency representative remained with the Center.
Two years ago the Defense Intelligence Agency provided a repre-
sentative. Both of these officers serve as course directors and
instructors as well as liaison officers.
In anticipation of further expansion of ISC courses and
support to the Intelligence Community, including probable require-
ments to present courses at certain DoD locations, both domestic
and overseas, I believe it would be desirable if the DoD representation
in the Center were increased by five or six additional instructor
personnel. This would permit the Center to respond more effectively
to existing and emerging DoD training requirements in quantitative
analysis methods, provide greater continuity in representation to
the Center, and assist in meeting the manpower requirements for the
Center.
The enclosed catalog summarizes the ISC courses currently
being conducted and the charts depict the growth of the activity
over the last seven years.
Please call on me or Mr. Harry E. Fitzwater, the Director of
Training, if we can provide any additional information which will
be useful to you in this matter.
Sincerely,
E. H. Knoche
Deputy Director
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2 5 MAY 1977
EM01,ANDLL FOR: Deputy Director of Central l telli ;.--ce
hCT y !Department of . efenso a tgrmentation of
Inforjs3ation Science Center iraininf
Staff
John P. shake
ieputy 1 irectcr for Administration
1. Action Ise uec~ stew: Your signature is requested on
the attach tter tote Assistant :>ecretary of Defense
for Co iunications Command Control and Intelligence.
L ackgroufd; The Information Science Center in
office of rag C31Ii) is experiencing a continauin5 increase
in the number of students enrolled. As you recall, this
activity, formerly in the ::defense L telligence School. was
picked up by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the
behest of _r, s=iliiam Colby in 1973 to be a Coi iunity trai is
activity. Since that time, there has been a steady increase
in the nunbber of students to the point where we anticipate
we will have between 800 and 1,200 students this year.
Interestingly, most of the requirements in the new courses
in the past year have been either froaa eparti ent of ,: efense
(DoD) or from :o munity p rograr s such as t t7'~ IR . In view
of the fact that -there is an increasin number of Coi