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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A002600300004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 14, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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14 July 1958
1. The attached papers on the JOT Program are not very specific and,
therefore, I find it difficult to be precise in passing to you my thoughts
on them.
2. As to the statement of the general objectives of the Program, it
seems sound enough for the most part. However, I do not agree with the
concept represented in paragraph 6. of Section I. It identifies the sole
objective of the Program insofar as DDS is concerned as development of
JOTs into Administrative Officers. Admittedly, I am reading the specific
language literally, but I think that this is justified in light of the
proposed training schedule which is appended. It is my opinion that newly
hired JOTs should, as a general rule, be prepared for work with one of the
Support Services. I think that Administrative Officers in most cases will
best be evolved from individuals who have gained significant experience
with one or another of the functional specialities which make up the Support
Services.
3. As to the specifics of the proposed training Program, the courses
entitled "American Heritage" and "DDS Orientation" are only titles insofar
as I know and, hence, have no meaning in terms of their content or even their
objective. You will note that after the initial fifteen weeks of training
common to all, the JOTs will then be split into groups so that their training
thereafter will be peculiar to the major component toward which they are
headed. With regard to those destined for the DDS I believe that the OPS
Support Course is appropriate, and assuming that these will be junior people,
I do not believe that it would be better for them to have the OPS Familiari-
zation Course at this early stage in their careers. I do not believe either
that each JOT being prepared for one of the Support Services should have the
Budget and Finance Procedures Course, the Logistics Support Course and all
of the other formalized training courses available within the Support Ser-
vices. To the contrary, I believe that it would be better at that time to
limit the further formal training of these people to those courses offering
coverage in the activities under the cognizance of the Career Service to
which they will be assigned.
4. Several years ago I asked the people running the JOT Program to
follow a procedure, insofar as Support Services JOTs were concerned, under
which the component for whom a JOT was being prepared would be consulted at
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the earliest possible time and expected to make a commitment to accept the
JOT conditional upon his performing satisfactorily during his preparatory
training. This scheme has the obvious advantage of sparing the JQT Program
from proceeding unilaterally, of keeping Career Services advised of potential
demands that they absorb personnel, of permitting the Career Services at the
early stages to critically evaluate their potential new member, of giving the
JOT a strong sense of direction, a place in the organization and a purpose in
his training. Since joined that staff it has become the usual way
for handling the smal number of JOTs which have come to the Support Services.
As far as I know, for all other parts of the Agency peddling of JOTs is
handled on a T/O vacancy basis with the using command organizations rather
than on a career service basis.
5. It may be that these papers were drafted without participation by
the people who run the JQT Program and without benefit of their advice. Per-
haps this was intended and is as it should be. Nonetheless, insofar as DDS
JOTs are concerned the papers fail to reflect the existing practice which we
had evolved with the cooperation of the JOT Program and the several Support
Services and suffers, I think, for this lack.
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