TRAINING OF CIA CAREER PERSONNEL BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE ARMY, NAVY, AND AIR FORCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2000
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I. The Central Intelligence Agency, like the Military Departments,
faces the vital and eontinuing problem of procuring and training on a career
basis, though in far smeller numbers, promising college graduates. Further,
it in increasingly apparent that in any Government career, and particularly
in the Central Intelligence Agency, the individual must possess those basic
disciplines and trairing which under our present system of education are
o'otainable only in the military services. This paper proposes for your
consideration the setting up of machinery for the CIA to *build up over the
years a compact corps of career men so imbued and so trained by the three
sorvices.
2. Specifically, it is visualised that thin corps Should spring from
Imo organised actions, both of which require effort by the CIA and the
oeparteent of Defense as follows'
a. CIA procure yearly through Serviceocontrolled sources not
more than 150 college graduates interested in a CIA career.
b. Upon request by CIA and as practicable, the Military Depart-
ents train the man so obtained by CIA, as well as selected small
numbers (not to exceed 50 annually) of college graduates with no
military commitments, for a two to three year active military duty
period in such appropriate courses as Basic Training, Officer
candidate School, Intelligence School, Language School, Public
(nformation School. Upon completion of the prescribed training,
which will vary with the individual and may include *field",
ntroop", or sea duty, trainees return to CIA for career employment,
normally with a reserve commiseion.
The two proposed actions are discussed respectivcly in Attachments (A)
and (B) hereto. Informal working: level exploration with the three
.51rvices indicates that the actions woad be feasible, with the condition
thot the individual Service will determine what maximum number it can
train in any specific course.
3. Certain salient points of these discussions merit emphasis'
a. iron the CIA viewpoint an increasing number of career
personnel will build upon a foundation of Service-instilled
discipline* loyalty and training and will possess a symphatetic,
knowledgeable grasp of Defense and security probleme.
h. From the Services' viewpoint an increasing number of CIA
personnel in top and middle strata will inject into the Agency a
healthful leavening of Service knowledge* views and needs.
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c. The Department of Defame will have the opportunity of training
annually it small number of high-caliber men who otherwise might be
relatively unaware of and unsympathetic to the Services' problems and
needs.
d. The anrzwtl lossof men to the Department of Defense who might
otherwise have elected a service career would be extremely small--less
than one-half of one per cent of the ROTC graduates of calendar 1951,
for example.
e. The active duty oenmitnenta of ROTC or OTC personnel are in
WM, reduced and may in some instances be extended.
f. The reserve status commitments of ROTC or NROTC personnel are
in no case reduced. In fact, the organised reserve groups at CIA can
be expected to foster reserve participation byond legal requirements.
g. The training requirements requested of the Services would
Impose no change in curricula of currently available courses. Rather,
It involves merely participation in aertain coolness by such small
numbers as the Services themmelves say will be manageable.
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