SUGGESTIONS ABOUT THE C.S. HISTORICAL STUDIES PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00764R000400020091-7
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: August 19, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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19 August 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT : Suggestions About the C.S. Historical
Studies Program
1. I see the present production effort as an essential pre-
liminary step in the eventual writing of the type historical study
you referred to this morning. The compilation of disparate and
related historical facts in a logical and sequential format seems
necessary and potentially very useful to future researchers. The
station- by- station treatment in the C.S. should satisfy this initial
requirement.
2. The second step, given the basic source material organized
by stations, should follow the topical suggestions you mentioned.
For example, historical reporting could be done by continental geo-
graphic areas covering Agency intelligence and operational contribu-
tions to U.S. policy decisions, military actions, world developments
and important contemporary happenings. The decade of the 1960's
in Latin America probably would include the following, among other
major ejgg R4
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3. Agency contributions, participation, and effectiveness
could be chronicled in connection with each of these important
substantive developments. In other words, I see the current
history - writing effort as only the first of two important steps
in a continuing program.
Acting Executive Assistant
Office of Training
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CIA History Subjects
1. Input from CIA on Sino-Soviet Conflict 25X1X4
2. An assessment of profit and loss from
program.
3. CIA inputs into technical developments of Intelligence
collection.
4. The new Intelligence man: a comparison of the OSS
type wit}M4CIA man of the 1970s.
5.
6. CIA and the FBI: friends or foes. V
7. CIA and the defector.
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Historical Program:
Some Suggested Subjects
1. The Intelligence Community: Conflict and Concert in the Sixties
2. ;Vg1Rhy Years of Subverting Soviet Propaganda /
4. The Agency's Relationship with the Executive Branch of Government
5. Scientific Collection: CIA's Leadership Role
6. Two Decades of Countering Insurgency V
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The Agency's Relationships with Its Partners in the Intelligence
Community
The Agency's Responsiveness to Requirements from the White House
and Congress
The Agency's Handling of Public Relations Problems
The Agency's Strategies and Techniques for Improving Intra-Agency
Relationships (e.g., IG, MAG, The Study Group)
The Agency's Role and Record in the U.S. Government's Analysis of
the Soviet Bloc countries' economies
The Senior Research Staff on International Communism - Why?
What Results? s shop - late '50s)
"The Missile Gap"
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