DISCONTINUANCE OF AMERICANS ABROAD ORIENTATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03090A000100070002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 12, 1965
• Content Type: BULL

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SPECIAL BULLETIN
12 January 1965
To: All Training Officers of the Agency
DISCONTINUANCE OF AMERICANS ABROAD ORIENTATIONS
Effective 18 January 1965, the Office of Training will discontinue
its current program of. Americans Abroad Orientations. The sub-
ject matter of the AAO's hereafter will be included in OTR's regu-
larly scheduled Dependents Briefing.
The Dependents Briefing is at present a six-hour program espe-
cially directed to wives who are going overseas under official
cover. Its content will be expanded so as to direct it to both wives
and employees, especially those preparing to leave for their first
overseas tour. It will consist of lectures and discussions on the.
Agency's role in the intelligence community and in international
problems, individual security, medical needs and care, living
under a cover, and generally the everyday problems that are most
likely to be encountered in a foreign country.
It. is assumed that employees will have the required professional
knowledge of the areas to which they are assigned. However, for
those who have a special need for an introductory course on a par-
ticular area, the Office of Training will arrange attendance at one
of the interdepartmental Area and Country Programs given by the
Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State. The Area and
Country Program is an intensive, three-week course, generally
given monthly, on the principal regions of the world, except West-
ern Europe. In addition to members of CIA, the programs are at-
tended by officers of the Department of Defense, AID, USIA, NSA
and other agencies or departments of the U. S. Government. Each
program on a region (see Schedule at the end) includes the geography
and history of the region, its economic, political and social struc-
ture, its religion and national; character, and the problems of
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cross-cultural communication. Lectures and discussions are pre-
sented by representatives from Government and from the academic
and business world.
The Dependents Briefing is scheduled through June, 1965 at the
Headquarters Building on the afternoons of 2 and 3 February, 2 and
3 March, 6 and 7 April, 4 and 5 May, and 1 and 2 June. Request
for a dependent or an employee to attend will be made on Form 73,
"Request for Internal Training, " which is sent by the Training Offi-
cer to the Registrar/OTR. Registration closes on the Wednesday
before the briefing.
The schedule of FSI's Area and Country Program, also through
June, is:
Eastern Europe an
the USSR(2)
Latin America(6)
Near East and
North Africa(6)
1-19 1-19 29 Mar 26 Apr 24 May 21 Jun
Feb Mar 16 Apr 14 May 11 Jun 9 Jul
Africa, Sub-Sahara(6) "
South Asia(6)
Southeast Asia(6)
East Asia(3)
Request to attend is
a Non- CIA Facility,
made on Form 136, "Request for Training at
" which is sent by the Training Officer through
the required officers to the Registrar/OTR. Registration closes
in the Registrar's office well in advance of FSI's deadline for ad-
mission, which is one week before the beginning date of a program.
Further information on the revised Dependents Briefing and on the
FSI program will be published in OTR Bulletins.
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