SURVEY OF RECENT CAREER TRAINEE (CT) CLASSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91M00696R000700120006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 13, 1976
• Content Type: MF

13 April 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Administration
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SUBJECT : Survey of Recent Career Trainee (CT) Classes
Summary: The Career Training Program continues to provide the Agency
with high quality young professionals selected on the basis of ever
evolving but more rigorous standards than in the past.
1. A hallmark of the Career Training Program is the consistently
high quality of selectees. The attached statistics attest to the maintenance
of that level of excellence over the years. They examine the last three
classes on the basis of schools attended, graduate degrees, military and
work experience, language capability and foreign orientation. In addition,
the Program applies special non-quantifiable criteria to determine such
qualities as interpersonal skills, native intelligence and analytical ability.
There has been no lessening of established standards. In fact, more
rigorous selection standards continue to be applied in response to the
Agency's evolving role, increasing responsibilities and declining size.
An inescapable conclusion is that the 48 CT's selected in calendar year
1975 endured more scrutiny in the selection process than did the 247
admitted in 1968. Thus, while class size has diminished, quality remains
high. STATINTL
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3. CT classes continue to reflect the Program's policy of
choosing high caliber candidates from a broad spectrum of colleges
and universities, both American and foreign. Furthermore, CT's
must also achieve excellence on the Agency's professional aptitude
test and be examined against more stringent psychological require-
ments than the average Agency employee. Indeed, the Psychological
Services Staff reports that examination scores of CT's significantly
exceed those of the college student norm group on 14 of the 18
personality scales.
4. It should be noted that the percentage of CT's with prior
relevant military service in intelligence work remains roughly the
same. CT language proficiency continues at a high level.
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