TRAINING FOR NEW EMPLOYEES - INTRODUCTION TO CIA AND THE CAREER TRAINEE DEVELOPMENT COURSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-00955R000200260040-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 40
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Administration
25X1 FROM:
erector o raining and Education
SUBJECT: Training for New Employees - Introduction to
CIA and the Career Trainee Development Course
1. In response to your request, I have outlined below
the training new Agency professionals receive and how the
subject of ethics is presented to them.
2. There are three segments in the Introduction to CIA
(ITCIA) Course that deal with employee responsibilities and
implications for personal demeanor in the intelligence
profession. A copy of the most recent ITCIA schedule is
attached, and the relevant segments are tagged.
3. Some observations on ITCIA course content:
a. The focus of ITCIA is to help relatively new
employees better understand the Agency's mission, its
relationship with the Intelligence Community, and how the
various parts of the Agency contribute to the whole.
There is not enough time to cover ev-~ office in depth,
but the Directorate overview does provide a good deal of
office-by-office information. In the DA segment the
emphasis is on those offices that tend to more directly
impact on the careers of new employees.
b. We have been using a
that face new employees during
Agency, but we do not believe
We intend to replace it in the
a discussion of Agency culture
small group format.
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their transition into the
that it meets our needs.
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SUBJECT: Training for New Employees - Introduction to CIA and
the Career Trainee Development Course
25X1 c, Curator of the Historical
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25X1 Agency and its culture. delivers a
message of professional ethics and responsibilities which
the students must assume as intelligence officers.
25X1 a presen a ion is esigne to
ress a impor ance o the professional code of conduct.
4 a byproduct of the processing center exercise,
25X1 has convened a working group with representatives
from the Office of Public Affairs, Office of Security, and the
Office of Training and Education to design a new EOD program. A
three and one half day schedule is now in draft form. It will
be conducted every second Monday, rather than every week, with
the first running scheduled for October 1987. The working group
is in complete agreement that employee ethics must be stressed
early; therefore, a presentation on ethics will be included in
the new program.
5. As mentioned elsewhere, we are developing new
procedures with OP to insure that all new employees attend
ITCIA, as required by Agency regulations. We have begun a new
dialogue with the Office of Communications to insure that OC
participates in this program.
6. The Career Trainee Development Course (CTDC) covers
the subject of Agency culture and ethics fairly well. In
addition to the items above that appear in ITCIA, the CTDC
includes an opening talk on the Agency credo, remarks by the
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SUBJECT: Training for New Employees - Introduction to CIA and
the Career Trainee Development Course
Chief, Career Training P ironment, a
25X1 presentation by Chief, on "Ethics
and Professionalism," a seminar on t e ro e o ante igence in a
free society, and informal chats on related issues between the
Career Trainees and their directorate advisors.
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