POSSIBLE INTELLIGENCE TRAINING NEEDS OF USIA.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06365A000800010020-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: September 7, 1954
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Director of Training
THRU : Chief, Plans & Research Staff
FROM . Chief, Intelligence Training Division
SUBJECT: Possible intelligence training needs of USIA.
DATE: 7 September 1954
1. Reference is made to IAC-D-82/l, dated 5 August, 1954,
"Report of Survey of USIA's Intelligence Needs and Assets."
2. In Par. 3.e. of Part 3 of this report (Page 7), it is
concluded that "the USIA should have an intelligence organization
designed to ensure that full use is made of the resources of the
intelligence community and to be responsive to those USIA needs
which cannot be met by the community." Recommendation b of Part 3
(Page 10) proposes an organization with a T/0 of 70 to 90 positions.
3. If the USIA establishes a foreign intelligence unit along
the lines recommended there will be a considerable number of employees
performing duties comparable to those in the overt offices of the
Agency -- analysis of information, research, production of reports,
liaison and coordination, reference services, etc. Some of these
employees probably will have had intelligence experience, but others
undoubtedly will be new to the business. It occurs to me that our
training programs might be utilized to assist in the development
of the USIA intelligence personnel. The 0TR basic intelligence course
and the world communism course, I believe, should be of interest to
USIA.
4. I am of the opinion that CIA stands to gain from the orienta-
tion and indoctrination of employees of other agencies who use our raw
and finished intelligence and who contribute to our production. Almost
all the IAC trainees we have had to date say that one of the principal
benefits of the BIC is an understanding of the resources and operations
of the Intelligence Community. Since the report recommends that USIA
rely heavily upon the IAC agencies and not attempt to duplicate their
functions, it would seem that the employees of the proposed intelligence
unit could learn a good deal from our training courses about the
support available to them, as well as absorbing some methodology of
the intelligence function.
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I recommend that the Chief,, Plans and Research Staff:
a. Learn if USIA plans to establish the intelli-
gence unit recommended by the survey staff;
b. If it does, inquire whether or not USIA has an
interest in intelligence training for the employees of
this unit;
c. If the answers to a, and b. are affirmative,,
proceed with such policy and administrative questions
as may be'involved in offering places in training courses
to USIA personnel.
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