CIA OPERATIONS CENTER TOUR FOR CPS GUESTS.

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• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
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• Publication Date: May 27, 1977
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27 May 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Center for Policy Support
SUBJECT CIA Operations Center Tour for
PS Guests.
1. The Operations Center is withdrawing from any
further briefings of academic groups, professional societies
or student organizations brought to the Building by the
Academic Liaison officer. We have twice agreed to receive
and brief such groups and both times have been chagrined
when the hour set for the appointed briefing slipped,
slipped again and then again a third time. Intentionally
or not, we are being used as a filler--something to catch
the notice and occupy Mr. visitors through the lull
between the time he gets em pas the reception area and
their first formal briefing. Such was the case with the
diplomatic historians a month ago and it clearly was the
case Friday with the Syracuse University group.
2. As you know, we were occupied much of today with
CBS News. When we first learned that we would b ght
to withdraw gracefully from our commitment to but STATINTL
were persuaded by a last minute appeal from him to give a
briefing at 1330. The group showed up almost fifteen minutes
late and we were looked to to give a meaningful briefing and
walk-through before their 1400 meeting with A STATINTL
minute before that briefing was scheduled employed STATINTL
hand signals so that the undersigned did not run over.
3. I didn't need them either. STATINTL
Deputy Director
CIA Operations Center
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director, Center for Policy Support
FROM Coordinator for Academic Relations
and External Analytical Support
SUBJECT Ops Center Tours
1. This is to clarify for the record some of the points
raised by in his memo to you on May 27. Since I
became DD ca emic Coordinator, I have arranged for visits to the
Ops Center by three academic groups. On April 15 about 45 West
Point cadets were briefed there during an approximately fifteen
minute tour. On April 28 a group of diplomatic historians and
State Department historians participating in State's "Historian-
Diplomat Program" were briefed, and on May 27 students and a fac-
ulty member from Syracuse University visited the Ops Center. In
each case arrangements were made in advance with eithe
or STATINTL
2. The Ops Center briefings were not used as "fillers."
I requested the tour for the West Point cadets at Admiral Turner's
direction and for the State Department group at the request of
State's Office of the Historian. These visits were quite success-
ful and well received by the participants. For that reason, and
mindful of the DCI's keen interest in improving our academic rela-
tionships, I suggested that the Syracuse group also benefit from
an Ops Center tour.
3. Regrettably perhaps, military-style punctuality is not
always possible when large groups of visitors are making the rounds
in the building. Since punctuality is not a common eccentricity
in the academic milieu in particular, I have learned to be patient
and flexible when faced with five or ten minute slippages in the
programs I arrange. Despite strained schedules in other parts
of the tours I have organized, the West Point and State visits to
the Ops Center went off right on time. The Syracuse students
were about ten minutes late arriving at the building because of
transportation problems, but there was nothing any of us here
could have done to influence that.
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4. The arrangements I made with the Ops Center for the Syra-
cuse visit were nnf a "last minute" thing. Details were worked
o at process. STATIN
beginning at in t e Ops Center conference room. Later, when
it appeared that a CBS film crew would be in the Ops Center at the
same time, called me his regrets that he could not
accomodate aneous visits. He agreed to my suggestion,
however, that an Ops Center staffer meet with the students in the
DDI conference room before presentation so that we
could honor our commitment to yracuse.
STATINTL
5. I regret any inconvenience that r other
Ops Center personnel may have experienced ecause o the tardiness
of the Syracuse group. I sincerely hope that this isolated experience
among the three visits I have arranged will not be viewed as typical.
The DCI, DDI, and other senior officials are committed to policies
intended to improve CIA's academic relationships, and the highly
professional, interesting tours of the Ops Center contribute valuably
t +. 1,
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SCHOOLS OR GROUPS REQUESTING HEADQUARTERS BRIEFINGS 197475
Colgate University
Georgetown Graduate Students
Princeton WHIG-CLIO Group
Syracuse/Maxwell School
West Point Cadets
Chinese Club
German
Russian
French
Debate Council & Forum
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