COURSE REPORT ---- ELEVENTH TWO-WEEK PROJECT USEFUL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04305A000100110001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 12, 1964
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2001/08/30: CIA-RDP78-04305A000100110001-7
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Director of Training
Course Report ee Eleventh Two-Week
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youth reeentation of the k Project U
program was heldat Headquarters in Room 1A*Y trQm 19
October . This program is an orientation for senior
officers in the mission and functions of the Central Intell g
Agency, with emphasis on those mattere which are of direct interest
to the military services", sudh as war planning and CIA Intelligence
support to the military. It is also intended that these officere
should leave the course with a, better appreciation of how CIA and
the Services can mutuany support one another.
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2. Backgrundt In the period between the tenth end eleventh
ntation of Project USEFUL, reeponsibility was transferred from
ar Plans Staff to the Office of Training. For this, preeenta-
on vs requested the assistance of War Plans Staff We received
excellent cooperation from the War Plans Staff both before and during
the course. A letter of Invitation addressed to the Chairman, Joint
Chiefs of Staff was sent under the DCI 'a. signature in early May of
1964. As a result of this letter, the Joint Staff established quotas
for the various commands and Dap elements. Liaison with the Joint
Sten' was conducted through Col. James Short, U.
3. preparation: Contacting the speakers was divided about
equally between WPS and OTR. Each speaker received a, general state-
ment of course objectives and general guidance, a "pacific set of
instructions for his presentation, and a schedule. A reading kit
of modest proportions was put together with about 75% of the materials
unclassified and thereby available to the stuaenta at the end of
the course. Arrangements were made with the OCR Library to permit
the attending officers to charge out materials from the unclasp/.
fled stocks. An innovation this time was pre-printed paper on which
the schedule was mimeograPhea. (Attachment A e- Schedule).
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