SENIOR SEMINAR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2000
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• Publication Date: January 14, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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ER 72-362
14 January 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Di rector for Plans
Deputy Director for Science & Technology
Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT t Senior Seminar
REFERENCE Memo for DTR from ExDir dtd 7 Jan 72,
Same Subject
1. As you know, the T):,rcctor has approved a second running of
the Senior Seminar. This is planned to run for the nine weeks begin-
ning 12 March 1972, the first week to be held at I _J and the
remainder of the program to be presented in the Senior Seminar space
in Chamber of Commerce Bui .dinU.
2. It is essential that t:lhe twenty officers selected for the second
Senior. Seminar represent the cream of the Agency, whose attendance
will produce identifiable benefits for them and the Agency. in order to
allow adequate time for selection throi.gh the Training Selection Board
process, your nominations should reach the Director of Training, who
is also Chairman of the Training Selection Board, by 10 Februaiy.
3. One of the questions as to the Seminar is whether it con-
tributes as much to the Agency as to the participants. To ensure this,
I believe that the identification, of appropriate nominees is sufficiently
important: to ask that you personally endorse each recommendation and
confirm that it proposes a "coiner" who undoubtedly will advance at
least one more grade and is p cos cntly in or is headed for senior
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responsibilities in your dircdoratc. 'While the emphasis should be
on officers in grades GS-16 and above, unusually promising, GS-15
officers may also be proposcrd.
W. E. Colby
cc: D /ONE
Giencral Counsel
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Legislative Counsel
DTR.
AO/DCI
Executive Director-Comptroller
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1. The second running of the CIA Senior Seminar will be conducted
by the Office of Training from 12 March through 12 May 1972. This program
is uniquely designed for senior Agency personnel and its content is on a
level with that of the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, the senior mili-
tary schools, and the Federal Executive Institute. The Seminar's objectives
c,re to update senior officers' knowledge of foreign developments and their
impact on CIA, to enlarge their understanding of the Agency, its official
relationships, and the problems and pressures facing Agency management, and
to expose them to change in American society which is relevant to CIA.
2. The Seminar draws on experts from academic life and private
research organizations, officials from other government agencies, and
knowledgeable officers from throughout the Agency. Much of the learning
and broadening in the Seminar comes, however, through extensive active
participation and sharing of views and insights among the Seminar partici-
pants. Therefore, the selecting of participating officers is a key element.
It is essential that the Seminar include capable senior officers who
represent different organizational elements and who bring together a range
of work and foreign area experierce. In order to enroll a group with such
a variety of backgrounds, quotas for nominations have not been established,
and each Directorate is requested to nominate more officers than might
ordinarily be expected to attend on a straight quota basis. Selection
from among the total group of nominations will be made by the Training
Selection Board with a view of producing a representative and balanced
group. Participation will be limited to twenty officers, minimum grade
GS-15.
3. Nominations to the Senior Seminar are requested from Directorates
by 10 February 1972. Precourse preparations will be worked out in early
March. The first week of the Seminar will be held at the
and the balance of the Seminar will be conducted in the
Senior Seminar area of the Chamber of Commerce Building.
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