FY 1981 TRAVEL LIMITATION(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00890R000800090009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 10, 1981
• Content Type: MF

MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy Director for Administration
OTE 81-1505
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Director ot raining and Education
SUBJECT: FY 1981 Travel Limitation
1. The Comptroller request for a 10% cut from the amount
for travel shown in the 1981 column of the 1982 budget comes at
an inopportune time for the Office of Training and Education (OTE).
As we have stated in previous memoranda, OTE already has a "hard",
unfunded requirement for travel of $133,520 which we were planning
to cover by reprogramming within the OTE FY 1981 budget. If this
unfunded requirement were formally included in our budget as travel,
we could absorb. the 10% cut. However, authority to internally re-
program for the $133,500 travel shortfall has been denied by the DDA
Budget Officer and some of our courses, particularly in the Operations
Training area, are in dire straits. This memorandum provides an
overall perspective of the situation and presents some alternative
solutions.
2. OTE requires $233.520 to conduct exercise and travel for
Operations Training Of this
amount $186,500 is required by the pera ions Lour e. i-Thm within
the OTE budget $100,000 has been made available for Operations
Training and almost all this amount has already been obligated. This
leaves the unfunded requirement in Operations Training for travel
of $133,520. F-1
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3. The immediate problem caused by this unfunded requirement
concerns the ongoing Operations callmse 0P. - 1. Unless OTE can
provide $36,000, the final week I lexercise will be 25X1
cancelled. The cancellation of this exercise means that 48 Career
Trainee students will not have the opportunity to employ the various
skills they have learned in a comprehensive exercise designed to
.test their ability in clandestine operations under a variety of
citnatinnc_ The entire 16-week course is built around exercises
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write reports, and practice a substantial amount of tradecraft..
This is an essential part of the course. This. travel was to have
been funded by reprogramming within the OTE budget from other
sub object classes until authority to do so was withdrawn. F-1
4. We propose the following solutions. to the intermediate
problem of funding the final.exerci.se.of: the ongoing OC and the
-longer term problem of funding operations. training for the remainder
-of FY 1981:
a. SOLUTION ONE. Absorb the 10% cut-and fund with existing
OTE travel funds. GTE has' 76,000 of unobligated funds remaining
in its budget for travel after the cut. As an.immediate fix, we
are providing the $36,000, leaving $40,000 for the entire office
for travel for the remainder of FY 1981. There would still be a
shortfall of $97,520 for travel for Operations Training. Probable
programmatic changes caused by this shifting are:
1. Cancel the final week exercise for the
remaining Operations Courses (OC). In this case the
CTs would not put into practice, in an integrated
exercise, all they have learned in the OC.
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2. Cancel) 19-81 (23-27 Feb) and possibly
other Ilan on.
3. Restructure the next running of the FOSC
(1-13 March and 1-12 April). to reduce or eliminate
exercise costs.
meals in various exercises and eliminate final
.exercise.
detection training in UIVIS - (21 April-16 May).
5. Revise exercises in Operations Course 3-81
(16 March-3 July) to drastically reduce use of.-bicles
4. Eliminate surveillance, surveillance
6. Eliminate the Clandestine Operations
Orientation Course 3-81 (22 March-4 April) unless
s associated with transporting students. to the
I Ican be borne by components other than OTE or other
ngements can bp- Tnq(l,- or travel which is not
chargeable to thel budget.
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7. Effective immediately will not. reimburse
students or instructors for use of their POVs on
official business.
$ 10,000
8. Cancel Clandestine Operations Orientation Course
4-81 (10-22:August) and will severely limit exercises
inOC 1-82,. the initial part of which occurs in FY 81
but. extends into FY 82 (3 August-20 November).
b. SOLUTION TWO. Absorb the loo cut and reprogram from
within OTE. Restoring the authority to reprogram from other
sub oject classes within the OTE dget would provide a
capability to. salvage thel exercise for the current 25X1
OC and would provide the Director o Training and Education (DTE)
with a capability to fund.other priority operations training to
include the remaining OC. 'Although consideration needs to be
given to project priorities and previous obligations, possible
sources of these funds within the OTE budget are:
$ 32,000
2. In courses such as the Midcareer Course
and the Advanced Intelligence Seminar, greatly
reduce the use of non-govermental experts to make
presentations and. rely instead on Government em-
ployees for whom there is no charge for their
.services . '
3. Eliminate one running of the
Leadership Seminar. $ 23,000
4. Eliminate persuasion skills training in
the Operations Course and in tutorial instruction
given by the Covert Instruction Division. $ 30,000
5. Reduce contracts for external support of
management courses, such as the Project Officer
in the Contract Cycle. $ 25,000
6. Reduce operational maintenance and draw
down supplies and equipment
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5. The programmatic impacts of absorbing the 10% cut without
restoration of our previously authorized reprogramming authority are:
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have learned in a comprehensive. exercise designed to test their-
-ability in clandestine operations under a variety of situations.
a. Cancellation of the final comprehensive. exercise for
the Operations Courses means that the Career Trainee students
will not have the opportunity,to.:'employ.the various skills they
b Canceling two runnings and possibly more runnings of
the eans'that a minimum
of 32 overseas bound employees will not receive this excel-
lent t 'ng in how to counter terrorist acts abroad. For
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Agenc cers will not receive the training. Further, we
have a long-term understanding with the Department of State,
the Defense Intelligence School and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to permit selected members of their organi-
zation, running of the to take the
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c. Restructuring the next Field Operations Support Course
to. eliminate. exercises effectively guts. this course. The'
reason is. that the course is designed to impart tradecraft
skills and familiarization, especially survellance detection
skills, to Operations Support Assistants, OSO officers and OTS
officers from DDS$T. Elimination or.serious reduction of
the. exercises makes the course simply a lecture course since
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no meaningful exercises can be conducted with the confines of
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d. The OMS is designed for mid-level-experienced DO
officers, new Chief and Deputy Chiefs of Station and Chiefs.
of Bases who need upgrading of tradecraft skills. The only
effective way to impart these skills and enhance skills'
already learned is by practical exercises. Eliminating a
substantial portion of the exercises reduces the course to
lectures and seminars.
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e. The OC is designed as a skills course in tradecraft
and reporting. This can best be learned by doing, by prac-
tical exerci.ses. If OC 3-81 exercises are severely limited,
and the final. exercise is eliminated altogether, the course
becomes. essentially a seminar and lecture course. The impact
will be 50 poorly trained CTs entering the DO at a time when
more training in skills is necessary by the changed operational
environment abroad.
f. Eliminating one or more Clandestine Operations
Orientation Courses has considerable impact on the OC since
this course is the prerequisite to. the OC even though practical
exercises are held to a minimum in this course. Further,
there are a number of students taking the COOC who need a
familiarization with clandestine operations even though they
will not be operations officers. These students will have
no training at all if the course is cancelled.
g. All of these courses respond directly to the need
of the DO to increase the number of DO, DDSE,T and DDA officers
to substantially improve the amount and quality of training of
those personnel going overseas directly involved in clandestine
collection or serving in a support role in clandestine operations,
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6. If all of the above possibilities of reducing costs are
carried out,. the additional costs to the Agency will be a serious
backlog on top of an already backlog of students needing 25X1
the COOC, and the FOSC. Because of personnel constraints and
resources that can reasonably be-expected in the next 12-18 months
this backlog is not likely to be eliminated because it is unlikely
that more es can be offered later to reduce the backlog of
students.
7. Finally we know the operating climate abroad is getting
more difficult. Our political equities abroad do not permit mistakes
in r?1nnr1actina nnPrstinns that cause political embarrassment. We
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protection. It is essential, and in our own self interest, to insure
that officers are trained to as high a degree of professionalism as we
can before they conduct clandestine operations in a foreign country. Ir
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