WEEKLY REPORT OF SCHOOL OF INTELLIGENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS NO. 19, 7 - 13 MAY 1971

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• Publication Date: May 17, 1971
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT . Weekly Report of School of Intelligence and
World Affairs No. 19, 7 - 13 May 1971
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COURSE ACTIVITIES
1. Advanced Intelligence Seminar (AIS) No. 5
The first week of AIS No. 5 has been a stronger beginning than that
of the March running. The mix of the 29-member seminar is a better one:
1 - O/DCI 11 - DDI, 3 - DDS&T, 9 - DDP, and 5 - DDS. The first full
day II offered the class three contrasting views of the Agency. The
DTR opened with a discussion of problems facing the Agency and the Intelli-
gence Community. A relatively young panel of officers -- from CA, NE,
OPPB, and ONE -- aired "current organizational hang-ups," and Colonel White
discussed current and future Agency resources. Former Ambassador Komer
gave his frank evaluation of intelligence assets and liabilities, while
Charles Williams, from the White House Staff, provided the class with a
real "mind-stretcher" in his forecast of the future direction of foreign
policy.
2. Orientation for Overseas
This month's Orientation for Overseas, which ran 11 and 12 May in the
25X1A6d Language School's meeting room in the provided us useful new experience. The class of 21 included 10 wives -- probably an unpre-
cedented ratio of wives to employees. The components represented were OS,
FOIAb3b1 TSD, II OMS, and DDS&T.
This class was considerably more sophisticated' than the average 00 group
in respect to personal adaptation problems and also displayed a greater than
usual desire for answers. Though this course was set up for persons who have
not previously served abroad with the Agency, three or four in this class
indicated that they had done so. Five participants urged that the course be
extended to four days or more in order to exploit better the resources intro-
duced.
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3. Intelligence Research Techniques Course
All planning and final scheduling is now complete for the Intelligence
Research Techniques Course, designed for NPIC personnel. The course, which
was formerly run for five half-day weeks and involved constant busing of
students, has been entirely revised. It will now be given in Room 1A-07
Headquarters B u i l d i n g , w i l l udents end most their time. They will
25X1A6d make only one trip, t The course has been reduced
25X1A9a to five full days, from 24 through 28 May, and its curriculum has bee -
stally changed and improved. s chief instructor and
will be in charge of the course day devoted to CRS. These two
faculty members are also responsible for the revision of the course organi-
zation and content. 25X1A9a 25X1A9a
4. USSR Survey
USSR Country Survey is underway. Nine students, mostly from NPIC,present
a unique situation -- every student has had our Intelligence and World Affairs,
or in one instance, the Introduction to Communism (1956). As a result most
of the sessions have been substantially changed to fit this situation -- a
minimum basis of information is assumed and the lectures or discussions
proceed from that level.
BRIEFING ACTIVITY
1. On 10 and 13 May, to foreign intelligence officials, on CIA and the
national security structure.
2. 11 through 14 May, with a
developments.
security official, on world Communist
3. On 11 May, at DIS, to 40 students in the Attache Course, "Mission,
Functions, and Organization of CIA."
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Experiential Cross-Cultural Training Workshop
reports that he was impressed with the radically new methodology
of the Experiential Cross-cultural Training Workshop at the Center for
Research and Education in Estes Park, Colorado. The 10 participants through
the week of 2 May included two other Government trainers -- Dewey Brumbaugh
of AID and Lt. Comdr. Joseph Purse], who heads a unit of the Human Response
Training effort expanded recently by Admiral Zumwalt. The balance of the
group came from universities or religious groups.
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The Workshop stresses learning by live experiences rather than by only
assimilating data -- learning how to do for oneself, rather than learning
only about how others have done. Further, the new methodology targets the
core problem of personal adaptation overseas -- the anxieties, frustrations,
and resort to "escapes" -- which is more closely related to the emotions
than the intellect. Hence the exercises seek to help participants under-
stand and deal with feelings in cross-cultural situations, as well as to
exploit useful data.
One of the slogans of Dr. Albert R. Wight, associate Director of the
Center, is that Americans have for too long gone overseas with the aim. of
inducing change in foreigners but without preparing adequately for the
changes in their own behavior on which the success of their missions depended.
A wealth of training materials for implementing the Center's methodology is
now available in the four-volume "Guidelines for Peace Corps Cross-cultural
Training" which it produced last year.
2. Requests for j Studies in Intelligence Article
reports that he's had two requests for reprints ies in Intellig ~. ence Fall 1970, entitled 25X1A
Twenty copies are being sent to IHC members and a -bout
that number are being circulated in CRS. No royalties have yet been received.
A letter (of complaint) to the Editor is reportedly being prepared.
3. 1 (Meets With Top Pentagon Historian
As a result of a meeting last week with Mr. Wilbur Hoare, Chief Historian
of the JCS, this week had a profitable three-hour meeti g and lunch
with the top historian in the Pentagon, who heads 25X1A
the Historical Staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 25X1A
was hired by General Donovan in the third month of C01's history - September,
1941, served in North Africa with OSS, and was made available to former
Secretary of War Stimson by Donovan to work on the Secretary's a rrs - the
same papers that worked on at Yale a few weeks ago. promised 25X1A
to make available to I when he is ready, the unpublished portions of
the Forrestal Diaries. 25X1A9a
the same question he was asked last month by the
former head of R&A of OSS when they met in Boston- 25X1A
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Where is the F
A history" flth.rc inr l~ I:.. f f
the same question at various times, but nobody has ever come upawith ~anything
more than "hunks and chunks" of it. As a result of some documents he has
discovered Iis preparing a memorandum for DTR on "the history,26X1A
and plans to send copies to two interested parties, Messrs. Lawrence Houston
and Walter Pforzheimer.
One last note: the JCS historian has offered to send to the Agency,
addressed to the DCI, a two-volume classified work on "The Origin and History
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." Written in 1953, the paper contains a very
useful account of the OSS-JCS relationship. The history should be a useful
addition to either Pforzheimer's or our Historical Staff collection.
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Fairfax Hospital.
PERSONNEL NOTES
is at home recuperating from recent surgery at
is attending NIS.
departed for a TDY in
on 12 May.
Chief, School of Intelligence
and World Affairs
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