D/OTE TRIP (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-00955R000100150029-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: June 18, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: (Optional)
D/OTE Trip to Denver
ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
FROM:
Director of Training and Education
1026 CofC
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
DDA
7D24 HQS
DDO
7E26 HQS
7 79"" 610 "SEDIT OS
241"
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OFFICER'S
INITIALS
NO.
OTE 86-1026
DATE
19 June 1986
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COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
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Director of Training and Education
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
VIA: Deputy Director for Administration
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CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT: D/OTE Trip
Last week, I spent a few
exercise--the last part of the
observations:
a. The new operations officer Career Trainees (CTs)
are absolutely first-rate.
b. They still share most of the values and opinions
of white, middle America, but...
c. After spending a short period of time with each
of the student teams, it is clear to me that you can
readily sort out those who are off to a fast start and are
likely to be the cutting edge operations officers, from
those who will be in the middle, from those (very few in
this case) who may have some problems.
d. The training is damn good. I had had some
concerns about what I feared might be the "mickey mouse"
nature of the hypothetical exercise. But, after watching
it and talking with students and instructors over those
days, I am convinced that it really does its work.
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e. I think our staff is excellent. I was greatly
impressed by these officers' commitment, enthusiasm, and
intelligence and, not least, their genuine interest in
helping mold and develop world-class operations officers.
They are a real credit to the Agency and the Clandestine
Service.
- `,,,~It is clear to everybody involved in the training
of new operations officers that there is great learning on
the part of the staff itself. It is a shame that we have
not institutionalized service-as-a-trainer as part of the
career pattern of our cutting edge operations officers. I
am convinced that we should try to find a way to do
that--for it would be an investment that would pay great
dividends.
Clearly, we need to recruit many more future
opera ions officers than we are now doing. However, after
watching these young people at close quarters, I have a
better understanding of the concern on the part of some old
hands that we not compromise on the quality of those we
take into the program. The demands we make on these young
people are considerable. We expect them to be street
smart, we expect them to be analytical, we expect them to
gregarious, we expect them to be thoughtful; we expect a
hell-of-a-lot of them. It is clear that it is difficult to
find those kinds of people.
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