MINUTES OF OVERSEAS TRAINING MATERIALS REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING 1400 HRS., 4 MAY 1951 RM. 204, R&S BLDG.

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MUTES
OF
OVERSEAS ThAINING MATERIALS REVIEW CO T
1400 HRS., 4 MAY 1.951
RN4 204, R&S BLDG.
Present: Messrs.
1. The Committee considered the training materials which had been
collected by MORD to satisfy the request of Chief, FDM dated 30 March
1951. Of the 35 papers, varying in length from 3 to 103 pages, and in
classification from Restricted to Secret, 33 were approved upon cursory
examination.
2. The following papers were disapproved:
3. In connection with the approved materials,the Committee noted
that certain TRD file code numbers had not been removed. These instances
were marked for deletion prior to delivery of the materials to FDM.
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to TMS for the indicated deletions and subseq
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mentioned above and the reasons therefor.
5. An a result of the discussion held in binuctian wiTh the material
considered at this meeting, the Committee denim% West itelf ricord
in regard to the makeshift nature of the presen4w r iig_
overseas training materials and the consequent ea
ability to discharge its responsibilition proper
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6. The training materials which are submitted to the Committee do not
constitute materials which have been designed or adapted for overseas use.
Rather they are materials designed and adapted for headquarters training of
staff officers in the United States. Thus the materials abound in symbols
and designations which should not be sent abroad. Further, a seemihelY
innocuous paper may contain within it a sentence or a paragraph which it
would not be desirable to send overseas. The volume of material which is
continuously being pulled from TRD files for dispatch makes it impossible
for the Committee to give it careful and detailed scrutiny. Within the
bounds of the cursory examination which it is possible for the Committee
to make, it has been sought to indicate necessary deletions (which have
been scissored out by THS) and to disapprove mere which are so obviously
unfit for dispatch as to make deletions impracticable. However, the
Committee realises that this system is not foolproof and wishes to so
state for the record.
70 The obvious remedy would be a pnit in TRD charged h the responsi?
bility of preparing and/Or adapting training materials specifically
for
overseas use. Such a unit could be briefed by the Committ general
limitations and restrictions. While the materials were in course of
preparation such a unit could consult with the Committee in individual case*
where guidance might be required. The Committee's final review and approval
of overseas training materials thus prepared or adapted could be based upon
informed opinion and workable practice.
S. It is recognised that TRD doss not currently have the personnel
to form such a unit. In this situation the Committee wishes to express for
the record the fact that the present system is a makeshift one to meet a
current exigency, and that its own practice is consequently of a stopgap
nature.
9. Due to the tact that tW has not the personnel or facilities to
prepare and/or adapt training materials for the overseas training of indigenous
agents, as opposed to American staff officers, the Committee understnnds that
one or more 080/0PC operating divisione are preparing or adapting training
materials for use overseas. The Committee does not know whether or not such
materials will be submitted to it for review, since the Committee was organised
primarily for the protection insofar as possible of TRD materials.
104 The Committee does not know what degree of coordination and/or
centralisation of effort, if any, is being effected by the operating divisions
which are preparing training materials for dispatch overseas. Nor does the
Committee know what degree of control, if may, such divisions propos* to
exercise over the handling of such materials. While the Committee does not
have specific knowledge, it seems probable that materials prepared or adapted
by the operating divisions for overseas use will be based in same measure at
least upon TRI) materials currently in headquarters use.
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11. It was the sense of the Committee that a copy of theee minutes
be delivered to Chief, TRD and Chief, Staff C so that such officers may
be apprised of the situation and considerations above set forth, and may,
if they deem it necessary or advisable, take appropriate action to secure
a general review of the overseas training materials problem.
There being no further business, the Committee adjourned 1610
hours.
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