WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #37 16 - 22 NOVEMBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02478761
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• Document Creation Date: July 1, 2024
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2024
• Case Number: F-2020-01361
• Publication Date: November 22, 1965

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT S Li Nor
Memorandum
TO Director of Training DATE: 22 November 1965
THRU Chief, Operations School, 0Th
,FROM : Chief, Training Assistance Staff, Operations School
SUBJECT: Weekly Activity Report 0,37
16 - 22 November 1965
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS:
None to report.
B. OTHER ITEMS:
1. PERSONAL MEETINGS FILM:
CI Staff requested TAS to reappraise the classification of
the old (1953) 0TH film "Personal Meetings," because of its
widespread use with both U.S. and foreign trainees, and the
confusion in the records as to its classification. The film
is a training lecture on personal meetings, with charts,
illustrated by appropriate clips from commercial films.
reviewed it and recommends that its classification be
reduced from SECRET to CONFIDENTIAL because of its age and the
treatment of the subject. The Film Branch, Cl/OA, and Graphics
Register will be advised of this recommendation.
2. TRAINING MATERIAL FOR
As support for a four weeks' training program for the new
training officer of the
has asked us to provide across-the-
board training materials in tradecraft. He requested pa ers
whiekJie can show to the trainee and eventually release
if the trainee asks for them as he is expected to do.
We have collected 41 items for to review on 23 November.
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3. VSS DINNER:
Because of General Eisenhower's recent heart attack, the
VSS dinner (WAR #33, 25 October 1965) has been postponed.
The Committee hopes that it can be held some time in January
1966.
4. THE WAR OF THE FLEA:
scanned The War of the flea: A Study of Guer-
rilla Warfare Theory and Practice, by Robert Taber (New York,
Lyle Stuart, 1965) and found it a superficial, third-hand
rehash of Guerrilla Warfare since WW-II, and a book not worthy
of serious consideration.
5. TRAINING MATERIALS FORWARDED:
To the Clandestine Services:
To NE Division
To the Office of Training:
Total:
2
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