WEEKLY REPORT - OFFICE OF TRAINING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 28, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

7MINISTFeATIV USE ONTLY
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28 Septer ber 1973
4L IXj1 FOR: Deputy Director for s', nt and services
Weekly Report - Office of Training
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A. O T,-ate T
The program got under way in the Auditorium on Tuesday with. about
160 Agency employees attenddng. a had set our cutoff at 200; had a
registration at that level, and found that many of those canceled at the last
ate The formality of the Auditorium appeared at first to have a reverse
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on had expected to bhii
e an entusastc group. Ibere were only
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with a -
nwniLy dynamic. , positive presentation an the future of the Agency
lily one change in spurs was necessar
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ree days
.
M/' T had to attend a meeting on the Hill and in the absence of his
1?*" We
s Dirks gave the lecture an the Directorate. Mr. Dirks did a
job, given such short notice for preparation.
B. Senior liar
have accepted invitations to
re in the C of C building:
daring the afternoon.
C. dcareer Course
scheduled for Tuesday, 6 November
in the morning. and Mr STAT
,sday of last week the class visited Iirmtsville fora t
our
r3h4lI Flight Center, Ci Sunday the class leaves for Chicago to
return ' day evening. During this week
ajor Cerieral Howa
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;putt' Director for Intelll&ence in DIA
gave an excellent
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. a 'k and Lieutenant Colonel Donald Stukel of the ;, St
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a standing job of explaining how the NSC machinery works.
STAT
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D. Pilot Runes of tems amamics course
An Introductory course in Systems Dynartdcs was conducted by Ray
STATINT on 17-19 September to acquaint representative officers from
^T T _ T offs with potential interest in the methodology with Systems Dynamics
Associates illustrated applications in a wide variety of managent and
analysis fields -- resource allocation, narcotics, RED, regional development,
ecimological forecasting, etc.
STATINTL follow-up queries to the attendees will be used
to deter ne more precisely the degree of interest in the methodology among
CIA's, organizational elements, the detail considered necessary in future
rogrsms Ato.achieve a desirable level of expertise in the methodology,
presentations, potential case studies, and other factorsAre latfin to-fur her
try in systems dy a nics.
Trends and Hi&jj& is
The forty-third running of the course was held from 17-21 September.
forty-five erloyees attended the course, 13 of w were Career Trainees
e were from other directorates.
P. Off- Program
At the end of Thursday's registration (the second day) approximately
230 eq loyees have been signed up for one or more of the 22 courses (actually
25$ registrations). Present readings suggest that about 16 or 18 of the courses
will have sufficient erurollment to qualify.under the University of Virginia's
vequirements. We are accepting registrations through next week even though
the Program is scheduled to start on 1 October.
Thursday afternoon, University officials met with the instructors
;ass course outlines, texts, and other matters allied to the teaching.
C. DLI's kan
jm,* Courses
The Director of the Systems Development Agency of the Defense
language Institute sent the Chief of the Language Learning Center copies of
U O protot, pe courses for his evaluation from the standpoint of substance
and the Center's use of them. One is an 18-week Thai course; the second is
a Viet" a proVmm*d instruction (modeled after one developed for the LLC
in 1967). Each good but of minimal use to (QTR since each is heavily
wei htod in military vocabulary and exercises.
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H. Briefings
On may,
Septer, a half-day program was presented for the
-7 mnri tim, Offices of Logistics and
24 t at the Defame Intelligence School, Paul
T5 miil V
e discussed various aspects of STAT
In
t Operxtivns to Bence
1I t assistawnce from CIA to the USAF Military Airlift
l
h
gave~a two-hour talk on CIA to approximately forty officers attending
114 use We of the officers m ,tinned to
.
e exce eI
flf= personaaliy, t
CAUDWIds citing In particular, assistance in providing information on hijacking
a : terrorists activities.
Enrollments Continue for Information Science Courses
s #or enrolment in the information science courses
tic
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a nti to be considerable. We have 88 applications for the one-week
managers coarse scheduled to begin on 15 October. (CIA-37, DIA-l4, NSA-lZ,,
,~r Intelligence-5, Navy Intelligence-Il, and the Air Force-9) Our maximum
is 35 1 he DIA and NSA figures do not reflect the number of applications
received by those agencies but only the n ber of principals and alternates-
to fill the agreed quota.
.at a very
scribed. Given the status of our staff, we see no i to
,,,aging from the nunber of telephone inquiries we are receiving,
r-week functions course, starting 29 October, will be similarly b f
d
these requixets.
Tndnki Conference
officers have already ra =ced to our invitation to
;cage Learning Center.
A, for those who haven't already die so, there will be a -
will tour the new facilities of the blur nat on of
o
?i~ un; r `Their void
rters. Awn the group is r"TAT
h received word that three members of the foreign policy seminar
:urrent running of the PEI's Residential Program in Executive Education
the brie ' s schled on Monday morning at
f
C. visit of PET Cam?
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held on 11 October in the chamber of COMM*
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day meat to
t- It Wing. In addition to hearing talks by the nra and the Chiefs of Units
cC.inei Training
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from they fUU field trip is for personal reasons. (It is not unusual for
this to happen since we understand some of the executives use the "trip-week"
to chem. Into their offices.)
ST~TINTL D. met. Bloc dinar for Africa: Division
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At the request of the Qhief, Africa Division, fl will. orgaftize a
seminar on conte orary Soviet Bloc affairs. The seaninar will consist of a
h'-mature and discussion, weekly, on Thursdays, from 3 to S p.m.
tear if interest so warrants) and will be held in the AF Conferees
It will continue for appr tely 14 weeks.
seminar will cover the tom, highlighting baclgrocu d
economy
,
,
foram policy, Soviet life, W-A the QSPU, There will also be coverage on
bates Europe countries. (OCI is taking responsibility for this portion.)
tended for AF officers concerned with the Soviet target, the
ar will not be operational, thus avoiding duplication of coverage in the
met Bloc Operations Course. Rather, it will be a familiarization (in some
yes g refresher) program, providing opportunity for exchange of new and
e= experiences of AF operations officers on what has been happening In
Soviet Bloc these rent far years.
The seminar is scheduled to begin on 4 October,
STATINTL
Alfonso Rodriguez
Director of Training
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