FOREIGN TRAVEL-OFFICE OF TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00498A000700130004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 23, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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23 January 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT Foreign Travel - Office of Training
I would like to make a few comments regarding
your directive on limiting foreign travel of DDA officers.
I fully understand and support your desire to comply with
the 0MB constraints and in many respects I can see why
travel for senior OTR officers fall within them. There is
one factor, however, which I want to mention that might
suggest a reappraisal of Directorate policy.
You are probably aware of the continuing
discussion and interest in certain areas of the DDO of
the possibility of taking over operations training. Although
there may be a case for this on the ground that operations
training is component training, I believe that you and I
are persuaded that the job is best done in OTR. I think,
however, that we may be vulnerable on one or more points.
One is that we have lost some credibility with the DDO at
both the management and the instructional level by virtue
of our people being too long away from operations officer
responsibilities.
Given the fact that some STATINTL
of the OTR budget is spent for operational training, I hope
you would agree that we should demonstrate to the DDO our
up-to-date appreciation of and sensitivity to their interests.
In a sense, then, I think that it might be expected that
senior IDA officials claiming responsibility for training
should have a proper exposure and review of the results of
our training on the operational mission abroad. In another
sense, I wonder if we can justify what could appear to be
the lack of oversight of the duct (case guists
CTS , etc) of a STATINTL
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dollar effort when a principal agrument against the management
of this Office in the operational field is that we are no
longer current and that insufficient attention is given to
operations training.
Foreign travel is not, of course, the only
way to reinforce our position with respect to the DDO. I
do think, however, that a positive statement of our intention
to inspect the product of our efforts in a foreign setting
would help considerably in maintaining our professional
position.
Alfonso Rodriguez
Director of Training
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