THE FOREIGN INTERNAL DEFENSE POLICY (FIDP), NATIONAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR AND RELATED TRAINING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 31, 1968
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM
TO : The Under Secretary
Chairman, Senior Interdepartmental Group
THROUGH S/S
FROM George V. Allen
Chairman, Committee on Training
SUBJECT The Foreign Internal Defense Policy (FIDP),
National Interdepartmental Seminar and
Related Training
This memorandum is the Committee on Training's response
to the SIG's directive of June 10 to initiate a review of the
NIS and related governmental programs to ensure that they
assimilate in their training the guidance in the FIDP. Specific
questions concerning the NIS are answered.separately -in the
enclosure.
The FIDP integrates internal defense policy within the
total framework of U.S. foreign policy determination and appli-
cation in developing countries. While the 1962 OIDP placed
more emphasis on doctrine, the FIDP emphasizes selectivity in
U.S. commitments and places greater responsibility on senior
officers to make assessments and judgments involving the
weighing of such diverse and complex factors as:
--- political, economic, and sociological-cultural
backgrounds and dynamics of country situations
with all their ambiguities, contradictions,
instabilities and unique elements;
significance of turbulence and disorders as
indicators of internal development or of exploi-
tati.on by communist or other forces;
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implications of internal country developments for
regional and international relationships;
identification of the nature and degree of U.S.
interests;
opportunities and limitations of external assistance,
with particular attention to strengthening internal
security capability;
capabilities and resources of U.S. agencies;
implications for U.S. position and policy of resource
commitments in individual situations.
The development of greater analytical competence and
sensitivity to these and other factors that must be considered
and weighed in determining and understanding the nature and
degree of U.S. interests should be the central purpose of
senior-officer training programs.
,The Committee on Training concludes that:
(A) all training programs in the field of foreign
internal defense should be forthwith reviewed
and revised, as necessary, to ensure that proper
emphasis be given to social, political, economic
and cultural factors in developing countries; to
political and institutional development, to the
identification of the nature and degree of U.S.
interests; and to the opportunities, limitations,
and consequences of U.S. assistance;
(B) greater attention should be given in each agency
to ensure that senior officers requiring this
special training attend the NIS;
(C) the NIS should continue to give even higher priority
to its role as the focal point for interagency
training on U.S. policy for foreign internal defense.
It is noted that the June Coordination Conference
for training directors from all agencies and services
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provided such a focal point for dissemination
and discussion of the new guidance.
As first steps to ensure assimilation of the FOP
guidelines in all government training in the field of
foreign internal defense, the Committee on Training has
initiated the following actions:
(A) Instructed the NIS to develop and. to submit to the
Committee on Training by October 1, an intensive
training course to incorporate the guidance of the
FIDP and which can be accomplished effectively with
the greatest possible economy of time;
(B)
Instructed the Working Group of the Committee on
Training to review and update, as necessary, the
training policies and objectives of NSAM 283 to
ensure consistency with FIDP guidelines;
(C) promulgated a preliminary glossary of terms for
training purposes, to be expanded or amended as
necessary to reflect the new emphasis in the FIDP.
In addition, the Political-Military Group is currently
coordinating the development of statements of Agency Roles
and Missions as required by the FIDP. All agencies, when
in receipt of the Roles and Missions statements and the
updated NSAM 283 on Foreign internal Defense Training Policy
and Objectives, will have the required guidelines to enable
them to review and revise, as necessary, their respective
training programs to ensure that proper emphasis is given
to the principal elements of the FIDP.
The Committee on Training recommends that:
(A) the SIG endorse the conclusions and approve the
actions of the Committee on Training as stated
above;
(B) the SIG mentbera impress again upon their respect vn
agencies the necessity for ensuring that their NIS
quotas are consistently filled by appropriate officers
Enclosure: Answers to questions concerning NIS.
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Enclosure A-- ]Pace 1
1. "Which officers require the special training offered
by the NIS?" (See footnote.)
Consistent with the guidelines acid emphasis of the FIDP,
all senior officers (FSO/R3, or Lt. Colonel/Commander
and above) who will serve as members of the country
team or as heads or deputies of a mission element in
a developing country; other senior officers as desired
by each agency in order to develop career patterns
requiring a sensitivity to foreign internal defense
issues; in Washington and overseas headquarters, offi-
cers at the level of Country Director and officers
holding responsible positions in policy or planning or
the coordination of interagency programs for the devel-
oping countries; senior advisers from the civilian
agencies assigned to service colleges and as political
advisers to military commands.
2. "Do students find the training applicable to problems
they later face in the field?"
A letter soliciting information in response to this
question has been sent to 275 officers who have graduated
from the Seminar over the past year. Replies will be
evaluated by the NIS and the results reported to the
Committee on Training.
3. "How can balanced attendance from all agencies,
services, and departments best be achieved?"
As the Committee on Training has no directive authority,
balanced attendance can only be achieved by the consistent
and conscientious attention of participating agencies in
assigning officers who require the training offered by
the NIS. The problem lies in the assignment process
within the individual agencies.
4. "Would the NIS be more effective (and would attendance
be improved) if, for example; the Seminar were abbreviated from
four weeks to two? If
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Enclosure -
It is the view of the Committee on Training that a
two-week course could not be more effective in ful-
filling the assigned training responsibilities of the
NIS. An optimum time can'be determined when the NIS
completes development of a course outline embodying
the guidance of the FIDP. The Committee on Training
will review this outline to ensure that an intensive
program is accomplished with the greatest possible
economy of time.
,Footnote to question 1.
The OSD representative holds the dissenting view that the
officers who should attend the course are only those who will
serve as members of the country team or as heads or deputies of
a mission element in a developing country which is on the SIG
approved internal Defense Action List or which each agent in
its luc nt feels may be later included on that list and other
_officers as desired by each a encV in order to develop career
patterns rec ui rinc a~sensitivityto foreic n internal defense
issues.
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