REDESIGNATION OF OVERSEAS TRAINING STAFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04314A000100120006-1
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 6, 1961
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Operations School
SUBJECT: Redesignation of Overseas Training Staff
REFERENCE: Memorandum from DDCI for DD/S, DD/P,
DD/I and IG, dated 25 March 1961, subject:
"Inspector General's Survey of the CIA Train-
ing Program"
1. In his Recommendation #4 of the survey of training, the IG
recommends that "DTR redesignate his Overseas Training Staff to
better reflect its expanding function as a clearing house for training
doctrine; that its role as a depositary and editorial and coordination
staff be negotiated with the Directorates and publicized, including
preparation and dissemination of bibliographies under the various
security limitations that may apply. "
2. Per his memorandum of 25 March, the DDCI has approved
this recommendation "with action to DTR in close coordination with
DD/P on defining functions and increasing effectiveness."
3. For your information and reference, DTR and DD/S 18 Novem-
ber 1960 comment on this recommendation was as follows: "I recom-
mend that the Overseas Training Branch be redesignated as the Opera-
tions Training Support Branch with a primary responsibility for training
support and guidance to overseas operational training activities
25X1A6a including the Station, and a secondary function for
provision of specialized training materials support to other Operations
25X1A6a School branches It is agreed that we must ensure
appropriate awareness in the Clandestine Services of the existence
of useful training materials, but it would be well not to overstate the
present capabilities of this Branch. The Branch is functioning very
effectively and producing at top capacity. Only by enlarging its
T/O and by assigning additional, qualified personnel capable of a
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high standard of individual work can its functions and scope be
expanded. At the same time actions have been and are being taken
to ensure that operating branches of the Clandestine Services are
fully cognizant of the nature and scope of services available."
4. So much for background. Some of the indicated DTR actions
which have been or are being carried out are as follows.
a.. The draft revision of now being coordinated
is a step in the direction of defining and publicizing a part of
Overseas Training's responsibilities and a part of its working
relationship with the Clandestine Services.
b. Another part of this relationship is covered by the
memorandum of agreement between the FE Division and
OTR concerning the administration. and support of the
_ Training Station. Overseas Training's specific
responsibilities in this regard are cited briefly in OTR
Regulation No. 25-9, but could be more adequately
covered in a, supplementary memorandum of understand-
ing between FE and OTR. (A preliminary draft of such a
memorandum was prepared by PPS for Overseas Training.)
c. Two recent issues of the OTR Bulletin have carried
articles in the Clandestine Services Edition which further
publicize Overseas Training activities,, and the Branch
already has received "feedback" on the first of these.
5. Going beyond this, it seems to PPS that our problem is to
confirm or reaffirm existing functions and responsibilities, to exploit
certain additional potential capabilities, and at the same time not to
exceed the practical and practicable limits of this Branch's capabilities,
keeping in mind the needs and capabilities of other parts of OTR.
6. We feel that Overseas Training's primary role must continue
to be to provide support to operations and operations training. On the
other hand, it should not be and in fact is not limited to support of
overseas operations and operations training, Next, while it supports
domestic and overseas operations and operational training, the materials
and kinds of instruction provided are not limited to strictly operational
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subject matter. Therefore, emphasis must be on a very wide access to
materials, rather than on expanding its responsibilities to support
training activities not connected with operations. Finally, the branch
must continue its_and TDY-instructor functions.
7. We do not think of the Overseas Training Branch or staff as
being a primary source of doctrine. Operational and training doctrine
come from the line trainers and from field operations--hopefully via. the
DD/P special staffs and from other elements having similar staff/R&D
functions, such as 10, SR, TSD, etc. Rather, Over-
seas Training is a collector and disseminator of "training doctrine"
in the form best suited to the operational/training needs of the con-
sumer. It is a producer in terms of researching and collating doctrine
in new usable forms (manuals, guides, bibliographies, lesson plans,
etc.) and of revising existing materials for new uses.
8. We suggest, therefore, that
a. This staff be retained as a major staff function of
the Operations School;
b. It be redesignated as the Special Training Assistance
staff, recognizing its broad scope of services and support but
neither committing or confining itself to a particular type or
scope of service;
c, These service functions might include, for example:
(1) Requirements--receipt and analysis of
requests for training support, recommendation for
action.. .
(2) Materials--research, collection, analysis,
classification, clearance, storage, dissemination,
distribution...
(3) Production--research, collation, writing,
revising, editing, arranging reproduction, proof-
reading, coordination of materials ...
(4) S12ecial Activities--agreed responsibilities
25X1A6a for Station, provision of TDY
instructors ...
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(5) Liaison--liaison with "producers" and
"consumers" of training materials, doctrine, and
training assistance.
9. The foregoing takes cognizance of the related responsibilities
or capabilities of
a. OTR Records Officer
b. Plans and Policy Staff--coordination, review of
OTR publications per OTR Reg 25-2
c. Registrar
d. IS, LASE etc. as "producers" of written material, etc.
10. We hope that CO/OS/TR may find these ideas of some use in
redefining that staff's functions and responsibilities.
Chief, Plans and Policy Staff
cc: CO/OS/TR
DDTR
PO/TR
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