WEEKLY REPORT OF SCHOOL OF INTELLIGENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS NO. 3, 15-21 JANUARY 1971

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• Publication Date: January 25, 1971
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Assistant
SUBJECT . Weekly Report of School of Intelligence and World
Affairs No. 3, 15-21 January 1971
COURSE ACTIVITIES
1. Advanced Intelligence Seminar
Following a series of exchanges with senior men in CIA as well as
potential outside guest speakers, the AIS program and speakers' roster
is now fairly well crystallized. Outside speakers now committed to the
course include such names as Prof. Hans Morgenthau, Prof. Roger Hilsman,
Prof. Carlo Schmitt, Mr. Richard Scammon, and Dr. Ray Cline. Ambassador
Llewellyn Thompson also has indicated his willingness to lead a special
seminar.
Administrative arrangements are also progressing apace. The flux of
applications has been more than gratifying. It now appears that we will
be heavily oversubscribed. This means we will need to turn down a number
of deserving applicants. To the advantage of the course, however, it also
means that we should be able to constitute a class which will have a high
measure of diverse professional experience, substance and managerial interests,
all necessary inputs for the type of seminar we are striving to develop.
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2. Orientation for Overseas
At the request of C/OS, of the CS
Training Committee on 18 January regarding the Orientation for Overseas.
Mr. solicited the briefing in lieu of a chance to observe an
00 c ass, Inasmuch as the normal February class has been cancelled. The
Chairman of the Committee has asked him to report on the 00 at the next
Committee meeting.
Mr. appears to hold some strong convictions about the
Agency's ong-standing need for a more forceful policy on the subject of
briefings for outbound personnel and dependents. He told that he will
recommend: inclusion of live coverage of the country of destination; addition
of a session or sessions pitched toward the special needs of case officers
and their wives; and direct involvement of erhaps in consultation
with the DD/S, on the whole problem. Mr. said there was no
question but that the present policy, established in 1965, of relying mainly
on in-house briefings within the CS had failed.
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3. Intelligence Orientation for- Program,
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Arrangements have been made with Office of Communications training
elements to conduct the OTR portions of the orientation for some
20 of their staff employees and their wives. The _ pro ram will 25X1A
include an Introduction to Intelligence on 2 Februar with in
charge and assisted b (Operations Sc ool).
On 3 February, conducts his Orientation for Overseas, and on
4 February, the group wi receive an Introduction to Communism.
4. IWA
The Intelligence and World Affairs Course for CT's progresses well.
We have finished the parts dealing with the U.S.S.R. and Communist China.
The guests to date have performed well. Particularly interesting was the
discussion of the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. For this
ur ose we were able to assemble a panel of two representatives from DDP/FE/
and two from DDI/Special Research Staff. The four participants were
highly competent. They all had impressive backgrounds in analytical or
operational work relating to Communist China over many years. They provided
a stimulating session for the students and the staff. I think it was also
useful for the students to have the opportunity to question specialists
from CS and DDI at a single session such as this on substantive matters. It
should suggest that the compartmentation within the Agency does not prevent
communication.
BRIEFING ACTIVITIES
25X1A9a 1. On 20 January, on "The Role of Intelligence in Foreign
Affairs" for the 3 e International Affairs and Government
Seminar. This is an annual two-week course sponsored by the CSC Executive
Seminar Center at King's Point, L.I. The class included eleven members of
the intelligence community: 4 from CIA, 4 from DIA, and 3 from NSA. For
CIA, this course marks a return to the program after a five-year absence.
25X1A9a 2. On 21 January, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on "The
Current World Situation" for 47 Pennsylvania count eting to
discuss civil defense and disaster preparedness.
3. On 15 January, on "The Communist Movement Today", at DIS.
4. On 20 January, , on "CP Organization" and "Communism in
the Developing Nations", at DIS.
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5. Last month DTR approved a request for a Headquarters briefing of eight
members and a faculty adviser from the Political Science Club of Dutchess
Community College at Poughkeepsie, New York. The student requester was
phoned several weeks ago and informed of Security's usual requirement that
a list of names, place of birth and date of birth be submitted prior to
the proposed visit. No list has been received as of this Frida noon; the
group arrives Monday morning for a week in D C We had planned Need to
Know" film and questions-and-answers by for next Tuesday after-
noon. We may have to postpone or deny the visit.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
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On Thursday afternoon, 14 January, at partici-
pated in discussions of two Latin American papers, as a guest of the Board
of National Estimates. An unexpected bonus, in the day at was
the opportunity to hear a wide-ranging discussion, by Board members and
Consultants, of Soviet interests in the Pacific and how they may be affected
over the next decade.
2. Two Outstanding Speakers at National War College and ICAF
After attending two lectures this week -- one at the National War College
and one at ICAF ---reports that both speakers were rated as the best
on the year's programs at these institutions. Dr. Paul E. Zinner, professor
of Political Science at University of California, spoke on "Soviet Foreign
Policy;" Ambassador Finger, deputy to the chief U.S. delegate to the UN spoke
on the "US and the UN." Both speakers should be valuable resources for our
future seminars, from the standpoint of content and delivery. was
also told by two NWC faculty members that made an outstanding
contribution to a seminar he participated in ast wee .
3. ' Tackles Mystery in pre-1947 CIA History
is preparing "an approach" to a newspaper columnist whose scoop
twenty- ive years ago effectively killed the Donovan plan for a postwar U.S.
intelligence organization and therefore bitterly angered the General.
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The columnist is Walter Trohan the senior Washington representative of
the Chicago Tribune who lives in Georgetown. In 1945 Trohan
published word for word the textsso wo secre JCS documents on the Donovan
and JCS plans for a successor to OSS and spoke of the "super spy idea" as
"a New Deal Ogpu" and "Gestapo." It was such an obvious deliberate leak
that "Who done it?" was the question of the hour; speculation centered, and
still centers, on the Army and the FBI. Donovan vainly over-turned every
stone to find the culprit.
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Tom, and he is, therefore, drafting a letter, which he will run through
the proper channels. He proposes to ask Trohan either to give his account
of the episode now or, if he does not feel free to do so, prepare such an
account for future delivery to the Agency under terms of his own making.
In the meantime has garnered, he thinks, all the documents on the
subject in our archives and is preparing to search other depositories and
interview a few other key people; none of the latter presents the problem
of delicacy Trohan does. This entire episode, with or without the answer
to "Who done it?" figures prominently in Tom's projected "From COI to CIA."
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