ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SENIOR SEMINAR

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2000
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• Publication Date: May 27, 1971
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director-Comptroller
THROUGH : 1uty Director for Support
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. Announcement of the 'Senior Seminar
1. This memorandum contains a recommendation for your ap-
proval in paragraph five.
2. Planning and development of the new Senior Seminar are
moving steadily ahead and we have scheduled it to commence on 19
September. The outlook is promising and I am confident that it
will meet the test of a hard evaluation stipulated by the Director.
In order to start the process of nominating and selecting the par-
ticipating officers, I would 1_i_ke to. send an announcement and a
brief outline of the Seminar to the heads of operating components
and training officers throughout the Agency. A copy of the announce-
ment and the outline are attached.
3. You will note from the announcement that the length of the
Seminar is considerably shorte:. than my original proposal for
a three-month course. This reduction in length responds to the
views informally expressed by the Director, as well as the advice
of the DDP, ADDP and ADDI who believe that making the Seminar
shorter will facilitate the nomination of better participants. The
IG, ADDP, ADDS, ADDI and EO/DDS&T, as well as a number of other
key officers throughout the Agency--close to forty outside OTR to
date--have been consulted for their views, suggestions, and re-
actions in planning the Senior Seminar. The results of these con-
sultations have been taken into account in developing the Seminar's
content.
4.. The continuing support of top managers throughout the
Agency is an essential ingredient in putting together, as you ad-
monished last December, a "first-class program." The focal point
of this support now centers on the nomination and selection of well.
qualified participants.
S. It is recommended that you approve the attached announce-
ment and brief outline to be distributed to heads of operating
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components and training officers in order to get the selection
process underway.
HUGJI T. CUNNINGI-I
Director of Train. i g
Concurrence:
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The recommendation in paragraph five is approved.
L. K. White
Executive Director-Comptroller
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 2. The Seminar's objectives are to update senior officers' knowledge
of foreign developments and their future impact on CIA, to develop greater
insight into the problems and pressures facing Agency management, and to
provide an opportunity for senior officers to renew their sense of personal
motivation and appetite for achievemer.t.. The Seminar will draw 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, however, will result from extensive
active participation and sharing of views and insights among the Seminar of-
ficers.
1. The Agency's new Senior Seminar, approved by the Director last
December, will. be conducted by the Office of Training from 19 September
through 24 November 1971. This program is uniquely designed for senior
Agency personnel and its content will 1x on a level with that of the Senior
Seminar in Foreign Policy, the senior service schools and the Federal Execu-
tive Institute. Participation will be limited to twenty officers, minimum
Grade GS-15.
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3. The attachment provides a brief outline of the subjects the Senior
Seminar will cover. The first week will. be held at the
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SENIOR SEMINAR
and the :balance of the Seminar ,011 be conducted from new quarters
Building.
4. The Office of Training and the various elements in the Agency
which are collaborating in and supporting the Seminar are extending every
effort to respond to the guidance from top management that the Seminar be
a "first-class program." Selection of officers is a key element, as it is ex-
pected that participants will play an active role in operating the Seminar.
It is essential to select capable senior officers who represent different or--..
ganizational elements and who bring together a range of work and foreign
area experience. In order to secure such a variety of backgrounds, quotas, I
for nominations will not be 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 to producing a repre-
sentative and balanced group.
5. Nominations to the Senior Seminar are requested from Directorates
by 9 July 1971. Final selections will be worked out by 23 July. Pre-course
preparation--briefings of the participants and distribution of a limited amount
of material to be read in advance--will be held in August.
HUGH T. CUNNINGHAM
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Outline of Content
"Pre-course" meetings will be held with participants in August to
secure their selection of "electives'", distribute a limited amount of
material to be read in advance, and answer questions.
I: The Senior Agency Officer (1 week)
Seminar Orientation. Current perspectives on CIA.
Lectures on management theories and techniques. -C-om--
=-"-ca; i-on-s= r hop Case studies. Electives.
II: The Intelligence Busine:,s. -__Today and the Future.( ,__week)
The changing structure. A selective look at a number
of significant activities throughout the Intelligence
Community. New technical systems and problems. The
role of Agent sources. How intelligence supports policy.
Communications and other- major support.
III: Major World Trends and their Significance for Intelligence
2 wee s plus
The Nixon Doctrine: Its implications for intelligence.
US-Soviet Relations - continuing challenge or divergence.
The Strategic Balance. Arms control. Implications of
25X1A arms control for intelligence. Intensive looks at the
Soviet and Chinese problems. Latin America, Middle
East, Western Europe, technology an power, and population.
Electives.
IV: Covert Action - The Hidden Side of Foreign Policy
1 2 wee -Pl plus
What Covert Action is. Policy guidance and controls.
Types of operations. Soviet and Chinese sponsored opera-
tions and their role in the conduct of Communist foreign
relations. Case studies. Objectives for the Seventies.
Electives.
V: The Changing Environment of CIA: Official Relationships
and2.elevant Domestic iah ng~ weeks)
The status of key relationships with the NSC and policy-
making agencies. Relations with the Congress. Changing
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national priorities and goals. How friends and critics
see us--youth, the media, and academia. Trends in
American Society. Electives.
VI: New Methodologies of Interest to Intelligence (1/2 week plus)
New analytical techniques: Delphi, systems analysis, and
quantitative decision-making. Futurism. ADP and the
Senior Officer. Electives.
VII: Domestic Travel (1/2 week)
Keyed to the particular interests of officers attending
the Seminar. Possibilities are intelligence, intelligence
contractor, military or space facilities, or institutions
involved in domestic change.
VIII: Management of Intelligence in a Period of Change
cT wee plus
Management of intelligence resources. Personnel manage-
ment. Intelligence and policy formulation. Factors in-
fluencing intelligence analysis. Intelligence in American
Society. Electives. General evaluation of the Seminar.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of T: airing
Hugh:
Further on my brief conversation with you about the
broader university aspects of the Office of Training, I want to confirm that
I discussed this with Colonel White. He recalled seeing the outline "A
Proposal for the Office of Training" which you dated about November 1968.
He agrees that some of this sort of thing properly could go on. He, I think,
would agree with us that a change in the regulation probably isn't necessary
and might better not be made. Further of course, if anything of major
importance or large implication be proposed it probably ought to be sur-
faced with the Deputies. He ended by saying "I am inclined to agree that
it is time to broaden and deepen OTR's function,". You might be interested
in a paragraph in a note I have written to Mr. Coffey on this subject:
"In our society the university is both :r. teaching institution and a research
center and certainly scholarly objectivity has a place in CIA. OTR is as
good a place as any and better than m ost from which to look at how the
Agency conducts its business. If, in the process of developing/revising
courses or course material, an opportunity be offered to study a policy
or practice, I think that opportunity should be seized. As a matter of
fact, the very process of seeking guid.an.ce in doctrine could be expected
to surface anomalies deserving attention. There would be no reason for
OTR not to take the lead >- with however the clear dictum that it not
decide what the resolution would be that must remain to command.
The regulation does not provide for tlos function perhaps it needn't
but it would be tidier if it did."
With this as a general endorsement, I think we
can let the matter rest in any formal sense and as your good judgment
and your facilities dictate you might begin rno ' r al in tb!.-z direction.
Robert S. Wattles
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