WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 40 28 SEPTEMBER - 2 OCTOBER 1970

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• Publication Date: October 2, 1970
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 40
28 September - 2 October 1970
1. More titles for proposed individual research papers
at the War Colleges have been received for clearance:
a. NPIC, Air War College --
"The Kurdish-Iraqi War, March 1969 to March 1970. "
b. OCI, Air War College, has chosen
to write two papers of about 3, 500 words each in lieu of
one long research paper. His topics are "The West German-
Soviet Nonaggression Treaty: Opportunity for Detente in
Europe, " and "U. S. Interests in Germany in the Wake of
the Bonn-Moscow Nonaggression Treaty."
hopes to submit both articles to the Armed Forces Journal
for publication.
c. DCS, Armed Forces Staff College --
"To determine, based on the present state of the art, what
methods of climate control/weather modification are feasible
for further development as means of effecting strategic and
tactical military operations. "
d. OSI, Armed Forces Staff College --
"The Accessibility of Intelligence Information to the U. S.
Congress. "
e. OTR, Army War College -- "Private
Program for the Arab States." (Unclassified)
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All topics were submitted to the offices involved as
well as the OS or CI Staff, as appropriate.
Unfortunately, proposed topic caused 25X1A9a
"raised eyebrows" in OS/EAB and OGC. While OSI had no
objection, OS and OGC found the title unacceptable and suggested
that another subject be chosen. Approvals have now been received
for new topic: "To consider the feasibility of the
laser as a replacement for flashing light communications in the
Navy. "
2. Registration for the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
briefing scheduled for 13 and 14 October now stands at 421; the
maximum number that can be accommodated in the Auditorium
is 499. We have heard from 31 components, which leaves about
half to go.
3. AIR received word today that OL, 25X1A9a
has been accepted in the Customer Air Conditioning Course given
by York Corporation, Division of Borg-Warner, 20 October -
5 November. This is the first time we have used this facility,
and the York representative :has requested that we let him know
25X1A9a what thinks of the course.
has also been accepted in the Carrier Air
Conditioning Course, Applied Products Engineering Training,
8 March - 9 April 1971. This winds up our effort, which began
last April, to get this air conditioning training for OL.
4. All of the FSI Area Seminars, with the exception of Near
East and North Africa, will begin as scheduled on 5 October. The
two people we had scheduled for the Near East and North Africa
have been rescheduled for the class beginning 30 November. The
nine people who will be attending the seminars were briefed in
AIR on 1 October.
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6. Deputy Director for Liaison and
Planning, OF, will attend the Department of Defense Computer
Institute's Senior Executive Course starting 5 October. Mr.
will also be representing the Agency in the Spring 1971
session of the M. I. T. Program for Senior Executives.
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Chief, Policy and Planning Staff, OF, will be nominated;
, Deputy Chief, Supply Division, OL, will be the
candidate for the 16 November course. is also the 25X1A9a
Agency's nominee for the Spring 1971 Advanced Management
Course at Harvard.
7. To date, only two thirds of the spaces requested by
various components for DASA's Nuclear Weapons Orientation
Advanced Course (Sandia Base, New Mexico) have been filled.
Many components are canceling for a variety of reasons. It is
felt that if this trend continues, the components will have to
re-evaluate their requests for spaces. AIR is continuing to request
components to utilize, if possible, the spaces requested for this
fiscal year.
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9. On 1 October a CCTV demonstration of a Sony Portable
Battery-Operated TV camera and recorder was held in Room
1 A 07, Headquarters, by Professional Products, Inc. representing
Sony Corporation. arranged this meeting for
of OS/ALT.
10. The filming of was completed in the
OTR Library on 28 September.
11. An Instructor Training Workshop was conducted for the
Office of Communications at the
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21 - 30 September 1970. There were nine students in the class;
eight have never tau ht before, and one has recently returned
to the school a" as Chief of the Cryptographic Section.
The group was industrious and enthusiastic and they showed
good progress in their ability to present instruction.
While m Tent through a PAI 25X1A9a
manual of training materials which an instructor ?j5X1A9a
, had obtained as part of the 3--week course in Instructional
Programming which he attended, at Lackland Air Force Base.
He plans to use this manual in training other _ instructors in 25X1A6a
the development of PAI instruction. In addition, to the changes
Nancy suggested in the appropriate use of the manual, assistance
was offered from OTR/ISS/ITB in training _instructors on 25X1A6a
how to prepare PAI since ITB does not feel the Office of Communi-
cations has the capability to do this effectively on their own at
this time.
12. Any instructor who can should -try to go to the
Armed Forces Audio Visual Communications Conference at the
Sheraton Park, 5 - 9 October. Try to get there the first two
days when you can be sure all the exhibitors will be displaying.
No other function brings as many exhibitors together as this one.
Admission is free.
13. We received 29 requests to attend Dr. Kissinger's
talk at the National War College. We now have five friends and
24 enemies.
We have already received 12 requests to attend General
Cushman's talk there on 16 October. Our quota at National War
College lectures is only five. We are thankful that Col. White
requests that no visitors attend his presentations there.
ten years so that one will be able to rent and w,ateh_guovi
14. and I met with Gerry Campbell
who represents CBS Electronic Visual Recording. He described
their visual recorder which sells for $695. This forty pound, brief-
case size machine plays a film contained in a cartridge (25 minutes,
color - 50 minutes, black and white) on any TV set. The cartridge
film can be made from any size movie film or video tape. It is
read by an electronic scanner so there is no wear. It can be
stopped for single frame viewing. EVR is a real innovation in the
audio-visual field but at the moment we aren't considering it for
CBS will not produce less than 50 single subject cartridges.
These cost $2, 350 for a fifty minute black and white cartridge. We
don't appear to need films in that volume. Mr. Campbell predicted
home TVs will have this equipment built in at a cost of $100 within
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