WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 18 3 - 7 MAY 1971

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06363A000300010022-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
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• Publication Date: May 7, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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7 May 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 18
3 - 7 May 1971
1, GS-14, MPS, is scheduled to attend
the DODCI Intermediate Executive Course starting 10 May.
2. The Office of Strategic Research forwarded us a
copy of a letter from the Department of Army's Management
System Support Agency. The letter describes a training program
concerning Strategic Weapons Exchange Models. It will be
held at Fort Myer starting 2 June. The program will be divided
into three courses that will be given in a continuous sequence.
The instruction will consist of an eight day Operations Research/
Systems Analyst/ Programmer Course, a five day Strategic
Analyst Course, and a one day or less Executive Planner's
Orientation Course. AIR is sending the letter and course outline
to all Senior Training Officers for information and indication
of interest.
3. We have five people enrolled in the Radar Signal
Processing and Clutter Course to be held May 17 - 21 in
Silver Spring: we also have three persons on the waiting list.
In addition, OCS, enrolled himself; the Form 136,
Request for Training at a Non-Agency Facility, is on its way.
I OC, in Facsimile - Where it is - Where it's going,
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4 Interesting external enrollments this week:
9 - 11 May in Boston; OL, in AMA's
Pollution Control in the Seventies -- Monitoring and Analysis,
19 - 21 May; OCI, in The New Left: an
International Overview, 7 - 10 June, at the Foreign Service
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downgrading and
declassilicali:n,
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Institute; four NPIC employees in Compilers and Operating
Systems, 7 - 10 June, at the University of Maryland.
25X1A9a 5.1 - CRS, one of the Agency's nominees
for the Armed Forces Staff College session beginning in August
told us that he will be on leave during the Senior Officer
Orientation Course, 28 - 30 June, and will probably ask to be
excused from the course. He attended the Advanced Intelligence
Seminar in March of this year.
25X1A9a 6. OF, will be the Agency's second
representative at the Federal Executive Institute's "Residential
Program in Executive Education. " I NPIC, 25X1A9a
was already enrolled in this eight-week program. The Agency
and Mr are recipients of a "windfall," since his
25X1A9a slot in the program was secured, cost free, as a result of
cancellations by other agencies. The only expenses incurred
by the Agency in connection wit attendance at 25X1A9a
this $3, 250 program will be per diem and travel costs -- less
than $200.
7. A former Career Trainee who will be going overseas
visited the Instructor Training Branch
8. At the request of I I ITB provided
copies of four books, and information on publisher and cost for
four others, which will be given to a member of
All of the books deal with training and
instructional systems.
25X1A9a 9. joined the Instructor Training Branch
on 5 May. He will be assisting Iwith his workshops
and his work with the Office of Communications and others in 25X1A9a
the improvement of instruction.
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only, are connected by telephone line to a
information. Some of the terminals are connected to a
computer in I and can be used for classified and
unclassified information; others, for unclassified material
computer in Ohio. These terminals are used by the
Information Science Center to process the results of the
exercise conducted as part of the "Information Science
course.
25X1A6a
in Support of Intelligence Functions"
11.I I spent two days with several members
of the staff editing a course
of instruction which was developed for a systems approach.
net
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of Communications. The Office of Communications is requesting,
through the DDS, that the Office of Training prepare a manual and
train those persons who will be typing cables on the new forms
being prepared for use with the Optical Character Reader being
developed for the Office of Communications. The Office of
Communications will assist us in the initial stages to develop
instructor proficiency.
a. This system requires the use of an IBM Selectric
typewriter with a specific type font. If OTR is to teach
this, it will be necessary to purchase a typewriter for
each student for the size class we intend to teach. These
typewriters cost $450 each. It becomes mandatory for
the operating divisions which don't already have this
particular typewriter to purchase them also.
b. Since a special typewriter is required, it probably
would be more efficient to have selected persons in each
branch type cables. This makes it difficult to determine
the number of people that we will have to train, and we
don't have any means of making this determination.
c. Each student should also have a grid to check
the accuracy of the alignment of the cable she has typed.
The typewritten letters must fit precisely in the blocks
of the grid if the machine is to accept the cable. Any
slight misalignment will cause the Optical Character
Reader to reject the cable. The grids cost $5. 00 each.
d. A rough estimate of time for this instruction is
between one and two days, full time. In looking over the
material, parts of it can be done via Program Assisted
Instruction. It will be necessary to have an instructor
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present during the PAI portion of the instruction as
well as the practice portion of the course. Since
trained in the new procedure, no accurate estimate
can be made as to (1) the best way to teach the
material, or (2) how much should be programmed.
indicated that Commo will be ready to accept this
cable format in the fall of this year.
have not been
the installation of any more white boards nd with 25X1A6d
the hope that we can get green, magnetic, aluminum bordered
they are an instructor's nightmare. The best boards according
to school designers and other experts are dark green in color
such as those installed at I sa this to forestall
13. White blackboards may be a decorator's dream but
boards for our new classrooms.
14. at
30 mechanical responders designed by
grew too large for Don to fulfill on weekends.
The demand 25X1A9a
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has his facilities making