WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #12, 14--25 MARCH 1958

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00594A000400030031-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: March 25, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Chief, Intelligence School
DATE: 25 March 1958
FROM : Chief, Orientation Faculty, IS
svsjECr: Weekly Activities Report #12, 14 - 25 March 1958
1. Summary
1. The Orientation Faculty presented to the Chief, Intelligence
School a syllabus for a three-week intelligence orientation course for
Junior Officer Trainees, scheduled to be given in September, 1958.
The course has two major objectives: (1) To explain for the student
the means by which National Security Policy is formulated and the
relationship of National Intelligence to that process, and (2) To
explain the intelligence process and its organization within the
structure of the Federal Government.
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2. Q is developing a brief lecture on Dissemination.
This lecture will augment the short briefing on that subject which has
proved inadequate.
3. The schedule for 10 #20 beginning 14 April is completed.
2. Significant Items:
On Thursday of this week, the staff forwarded to C/IS a
topical outline of an orientation course for Junior Officer Trainees,
scheduled to begin in September. There are two major units in the
three-week syllabus:
A. The National Security Policy of the United States,
emphasizing the following points:
1. The position of the United States as leader of
the free world.
2. Formulation of the National Security Policy.
3. The instruments of U. S. Foreign Policy.
B. Intelligence, discussed under the following headings:
1. The contributions of intelligence to foreign policy.
2. The fundamentals of intelligence.
3. The intelligence community (IAC and CIA).
The extra week scheduled for the course has permitted the
staff to include a block of instruction on the relationship between
national intelligence and foreign policy and thus place national
intelligence in an effective frame of reference.
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3. Other Activities:
A. Intelligence Orientation
1. The schedule for 10 #20 follows the pattern of the last
six courses. Because of enthusiastic student response, the staff
will continue both the noontime films and schedule at least two
area orientation lectures.
2. is developing a 20-minute talk on Dissemination
that he wi give instead of the present short briefing on that
subject. According to student comments, the present short briefing
does not enable the class to grasp the complexities of the
dissemination process.
3. At our request I uis investigating reasons for
failures in the 10 course with regard to background factors,
particularly concerning education, age and experience. When
completed this may help us develop a system of evaluating
failures that will be satisfactory to both the 1.0. and A&E
Staffs and fair to the students.
The scheduling of a six-week 1.0. for JOTts in
September will necessitate the rescheduling of all later 1.0.
courses during the next fiscal year. Rescheduling in itself is
not a serious problem but in this case could result in increasing
enrollment to the point where courses could not be managed by
6~0 a OVAI- the present staff. We strongly recommend that regular 1.0.
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