ROTATION OF TRC PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000400090034-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: December 5, 1951
• Content Type: MF

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5 December 1951
MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR OF TRAINING
SUBJECT: Rotation of TRC Personnel
Basic Considerations
a, TRC supports the operations offices. It is likewise
considered that TRO can be effective only to the extent
that the operations offices in turn support TRC, particularly
with respect to the furnishing of personnel qualified to
be instructors.
br In training individuals for service in the operations
offices, the most effective instructors are, assuming a
degree of pedagogical ability, persons with recent service
in the field. Conversely, persons with recent instructional
experience should render good service in the operations
offices*.
c. From the foregoing, it is concluded that the best
interests of the CIA would be served by a continuing rota-
tion of personnel from the operations offices into TRO,
and from TRC to the operations offices*
2. Source of Instructors, To fill the authorized Tables
of Organization o! TRC, instructors would be obtained from the
following sourcess
a. Direct recruitment of civilians,,
b. The operations offices*
c. The military services.
Periodic review, sponsored by TRC, would be had to determine the
proper proportion to be followed, and the most appropriate and
desirable source to be utilized.
3, eration of the Rotation Policy
a. The optimum length of a tour of duty as instructor
in operational subjects in TRC is two years. Grounds for
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(1) The validity of the experience gained from
field experience tends to become vitiated after two
years, hence the knowledge used as instructional
material likewise ceases to be significant.
(2) As with the freshness of his background
knowledge, the interest and enthusiasm of the in-
structor tend toward exhaustion, Professional
teachers by custom have ample chance for a renewal
of their energies each year, the normal long vaca-
tion of three months, while such opportunity for
re-creation cannot be provided for TRC instructors,
(3) The individual, benefited as he would be
from his two years' practice in the theoretical,
doctrinal aspect of CIA activities, would be more
useful on field-service if that practice be not
over-long,
b. An assignment to TRC should be preceded by a
familiarization period of from two to four months duration.
This period would be devoted to regular instruction, if
desirable, to refresher training, to training in the tech-
niques and practices of training, and general orientation
in TRC operations. The total time, 26 to 28 months, of
assignment to TRC should require the physical presence of
the individual at TRC for that period; any time needed for
the physical movement of the individual from or to the
field or other jurisdiction of the operations offices
would be additional thereto,
4. Exceptions to Rotation. Certain key personnel pre-
sently assigns to TRC, aniling executive and administrative
posts, are considered generally as not being subject to this
policy. Requirements affecting this category of personnel would
be met on individual bases. Likewise, individuals who were direct-
ly recruited by TRC, or whose highly specialized duties make
them unnecessary at this time to the operations offices are
considered not subject to rotation,
/s/
Assistant Director of Training (Covert)
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