CAREER TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B01152R001001280002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 13, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

DDS4T-794-83
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
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FROM: R. E. Hineman
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
SUBJECT: Career Training
1. This Directorate's role of providing technical support to
Agency and national programs is made easier and more effective if
Directorate officers have a broad understanding of the Agency and
the Intelligence Community. Although such understanding can be
obtained from experience, training and developmental programs
would be a faster and better means. Paralleling the needs of
this Directorate is, I am convinced, a need within the Agency to
develop broad-based professional intelligence officers. The
ideal would be a. continual development process beginning at
entrance on duty and involving a combination of training and
varied assignments that broaden perspectives, enhance skills, and
sublimate parochialism.
2. There currently is no training program or systematic
process in the Agency that offers young professionals a broad
overview of the process as a foundation upon which to build
careers in the Intelligence profession. The ten-week Career
Trainee Development Program has some of the desired
characteristics but it is oriented primarily toward the
Directorate of Operations. As currently constituted, only three
and a half weeks--including one week to cover DI Principles of
Analysis" and one week for a DO oriented "Overview of Technical
Services--are devoted to the Community and the Agency. There is
no question of the validity of the needs of the DO; they are
evident to those who have been here during recent years. It is
equally evident, however, that the CT Program does not give
balanced coverage of the Agency and its role in the Community.
Nor does it serve as a vehicle for preparing the cream of the
applicant crop to be truly broad-based professional intelligence
careerists for the entire Agency.
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3. That raises the following questions: What should be the
longer term objective of the Career Trainee Development Program?
Should it be an Agency-wide program to produce officers grounded
in the overall intelligence business or should it continue to be
aimed primarily at producing operations officers?
4. I believe these questions are of sufficient moment to
.warrant consideration and decision by the EXCOM. If. the EXCOM
decision were that the CT program should be for operations
officers, it would suggest we in the DDS$T need to develop a-
program oriented specifically toward DDS&T needs. If the
decision were that the purpose should be to develop career
intelligence officers, the first part of the CT course would have
to be redesigned to give the CTs a solid exposure to the
Community and the Agency.
S. I would envisage a redesigned introductory portion to
cover in some detail the missions, functions, and general
activities of the Community and especially the Agency. The
emphasis would be on the what, where, why, and by whom things are
done. Included also would be general exposure to how these
things are done,. After completing the introductory portion, the
students would have at least three interim assignments--perhaps
one'in each substantive directorate. Alternatively, some might
have their interims divided between substantive directorates and
staff or support elements such as the Comptroller Staff for
introduction to the budget process, the Office of Legislative
Affairs for exposure to Executive and Legislative Branch
relationships, or maybe to the DDA Office of Logistics to observe
contracting procedures from the OL perspective. Such a series of
interim assignments not only would permit the CTs and the hiring
component to make reasoned decisions about career assignments,
but also would give the CTs broadened perspectives of-the
Intelligence profession.
6. Certainly the need exists, in this Directorate, for our
officers to have a broader understanding of the intelligence
process. I believe other directorates have similar needs,
therefore, it would be more cost effective to have one
comprehensive introductory course than to have individual
directorates sponsor their own. The individually sponsored
courses would necessarily be duplicative in their coverage of
structures, missions, and activities. Even if that were not the
case, however, such independently sponsored training would tend
to be parochial--just the opposite of the broadened perspectives
that I perceive to be needed.
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7. An independently sponsored portion of a CT program could
be appropriate once career assignment preferences were made and
accepted. In that circumstance, the CT would enter a special
course segment covering in detail the activities of his or her
directorate. That segment would elaborate on how things are done
in much the same way that the DO and the DI are doing now.
8. I recommend that these issues about the CT program and
its longer term objectives be a subject for EXCOM deliberations.
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