MIDCAREER TRAINING PROGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00560R000100110001-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 18, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No. -336
TO : Deputy Director/'Plans
Deputy Director/Intelligence
Zeputy Director/Science and Technology
'Deputy Director/ Support
SUBJECT . ' r."idcareer Training :Pr ovrK::rns
December .1.963
I. Now that the first 1 idcareer Training Course has been
succcsafally completed, I wish to call to your attention Agency Notice
IIN I8-5 dated 29 March 1963 and entitled "Midcar eer Training .Pro--
gram". This Notice directs the Deputy Directors and beads of Career
cervices to evaluate critically all employees in the ridca=eer category.
The Notice farther instructs that the Deputy Directors and heads of
Career : ervices shall then in consultation with the Director of Training
plan a rnirieareer training program for each individual selected to be
completed in not more than five.years. This training may bo internal
or external or a combination of the two; it can be specialized-or general
or a combination. The heart of this Pro dram will ordinarily be the
l idcareer Course; however, the in .potrtant factor is th at it will be
tailored to fit the career of the individual.
2. 1 am requesting that the CIA Training Selection Board assume
as one of its first duties the responsibility for recornmending to me
procedures whereby the 1-idcareer Training Program will be effective
on a continuing basis. It will be the responsibility of the Board to
determine if the concept of the term "midcareer training? is fully
understood. I expect that the Board, in addition to making recomrnen-
dations on how to set rap a permanent system, will play an important
at on a continuing basis in the direction and monitoring of the Program.
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3. I wish to point cut that there may be cases where 1ndivid tats
will receive specialized W::='.:'cancer training even thouh they may not be
selected for the lv`_idcareo Course.
4. If the trainir.. , -:ds of an individual at rraidcareer are surveyed
and it is decided by the of his Career Service and the Director of
Training that further tr:: is unnecessary or ba .dvisable, this should
be n ade a matter of ro,. a--=d the individual so advised. Although indi-
viduals at the midcareer stage should participate in suggesting the contents
of their training program, the final decision as to the type of training will
be the responsibility of the head of his Career :,ervice in consultation with
the Director of Training. ZEowever, each individual when he enters his
s:?_idcareer period will have his case systematically reviewed and will be
told by the head of his Career Service what training he will receive and
or the reasons why he will receive no such
the reasons for such training
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(signed) Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Executive Director
cc-. Isispe ctor General
Office of G-enteral Counsel
0/Eudret/PA/ '1
Administrative Officer/DCI
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