DRAFT PAPER ENTITLED 'A REVIEW OF LIASON TRAINING'

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02512541
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2022
• Case Number: F-2017-01009
• Publication Date: June 6, 1972

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6 June 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, FI/OPS
SUBJECT : Draft Paper Entitled "A Review of Liaison Training
1. Tour paper has been read with zreat interest not only by me but by
Larry Connell, who has been chief of \ALT for the
past year and whose comments I have taken the liberty of including with my
own. In most cases, rather than suggesting alternate language, I will
merely comment on the particular entry and leave it to you to include or
not to include some appropriate change or addition in whatever language
you wish.
a. First off. I think since the discussion under the major
points is rather lengthy, you might wish to underline the problem
areas beginning on page 7, thereby highlighting the broad outline
of the paper.
b. Page 6: Figure $7, 500 as per diem for 15 trips seems
little law. Connell has recently completed a sir-week stay in
costing about $1, 600 in per diem alone.
c. Page 17: Either here or later on in the paper where
recommendations are dealt with you may wish to make reference
to the problem which constantly besets us when criteria for the
selection of candidates are not observed: this is the age-old
one of nepotism, which will probably always be with us to a degree.
I recognize that the services are few indeed on which one can
successfully impose an objective list of sensible standards for
selection of trainees. However, it may be worth a mention,
since it does affect the quality of the programs.
4. Page 18, lines 4 and 5: Neither / in my year here, nor
nnell in his almost three in ALT, are aware of any training programs
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where either the service concerned or the Station have expressed
"disappointment with coarse content. " If you have gone back beyond
three years in your searches, there may well be some, but in the
recent years at any rate if there are such unfavorable judgments
they have not been reported to OTR.
e. Page 29: In connection with paragraph I you may wish to
take annual or regular training sessions in your sights and stress
that they not be encouraged unless they correspond to a goal which
has been agreed between Headquarters and the field and which
therefore, one could expect to find in the project outline.
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2. We certainly endorse paragraphs 8 and 9 on page 33 and this
endorsement applies not only to liaison training but to all training done
by ALT. Despite the large number of programs which your research has
shown, you we have conducted, I can recall only three instances in the past
three years in which there has been any follow-up evaluation to training.
I make it a special point during the COS Seminar to urge outgoing Chiefs
of Station and Deputies to be attentive to this point and have suggested that
as a bare minimum the renewal of a liaison project, or indeed unilateral
project, include under "changes" a summary evaluation of any training
given during the prior year. However, I do believe that if it can be imposed
and enforced, your more detailed requirement will be more valuable to
OTR as well as to the Station.
ALAN P. WHITE
Chief, Operations School/ TR
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