EXTERNAL TRAINING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00261R000300030011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 26, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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2 6 APR 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR
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Deputy Director for Administration File
Director, National Foreign Assessment Center
FROM:
Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT:
External Training on College Campuses
REFERENCE:
DDCI's Memorandum Re Placing Our People on
College Campuses, dated 20 April 1978
1. I appreciate your memorandum on training on college campuses,
etc., and in particular the problem we're having with the Congress in
this area. I'm impressed with two points:
a. How frequently in any discussion of personnel matters
within the Agency people raise the question of inadequate
training in management and hence poor managerial practices.
b. The vital necessity in any research organization such as
NFAC in recharging batteries and introducing outside
stimulus for the analysts.
2. In short, I am willing to look at several major changes of
direction. One would be a very deliberate and considered approach to
the Congress to understand these issues. The other would be to divert
our training funds from some of the things they are now being used
for, such as war colleges, into some really solid academic programs.
One type of program would be management courses such as the AMP and DMD
at Harvard Business School. Another would be placing our NFAC analysts
in a college atmosphere for a year or two to do some specific work
toward a masters or doctorate degree.
3. Not having read the S$I report on this,"I may be a bit naive.
I'd appreciate it if NFAC and DDA could get together to see if there
is any way we can meet the majority of the SFI objections where they
are valid by reorientation of our program and at the same time meet
the objectives I mentioned above.
IMSFIELD TURNER
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20 April 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Your Note, dated 15 April 1978, Re Placing
Our People on College Campuses
1. The Agency training program consists of internal and
external training courses. The.Office of. Training. budgets for
certain high priority-external training courses. Budgeting. for
full-time academic training and external language training is
done by. the sponsoring. component.
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2. Cur. rently, several offices have enrolled employees, in
full-time academic training -- some for one or two semesters. Each
training request must be justified as job related as defined in
Title 5, U.S. Code Chapter 41. Thus, none are sabbaticals according.
to the traditional definition. -.There are 29-employees currently
enrolled in such full-time training. Some are using the-GI Bill
while receiving a full Agency salary. All have prepared a memo of
justification to their Directorate with a Form 136 (Request for
External Training). Office of Training then insures that the request
is in compliance with Title 5.
3. The-S&I Team has been critical of Agency training. Their
1977 report recommended-that the:Agency reevaluate-its external
training program . particularly concerning the-use of management.and
executive development programs.at'non-government facilities-...They-
.also-? ra.ised.ques.ti.ons.-about several-full-time external training
approvals because- they.invol-ved travel and/or, per,diem. Each instance
.was addressed in your response of 20 April 1977 to the Appropriations
Committee.
4. In, the FY' 1978 'training budget the, CIA request for external
training for-all types was. cut. by $1,000,000. CIA chose to apply the
entire cut to external training., both to comply with the S&I Staff
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report and to minimize the adverse impact across the entire Agency
and the Intelligence Community. The analysis of this budget, which
was sent to the Committee is quoted below:
An analysis of the FY 1978 external training budget
shows a substantial cut in full-time academic training--
23 full-time students in FY 1977 reduced to 14 in FY 1978.
A reduction was made to the after-hours CIA Off-Campus
program run under contract by the University of Virginia;
the funds allocated and the number of courses offered were
cut from $70,000 and 34 courses to $40,000 and 22 courses,
comparing FY 1977 and FY 1978, respectively. Similarly,
the-number of..individuals who were-sponsoredforpart-time
academi.c training was.reduced.by 23 percent, and training.-
at other- Government agencies went, down 16. percent. Training
at senior military schools, senior Civil Service'Commission
courses, Brookings Institution programs and State Department
high. level courses was cut from 82 attendees in FY 1977
to 50 in. FY.1978 Attendance for CIA personnel in
executive development programs, criticized. in the SCI
report,.was sharply reduced from 14 in FY 1977 to 4 in-
FY 1978.
Also,. the FY 1979 external training request is quoted:
The FY 1979 request of $2,515,000 for external training--
an increase of $569,000--reflects the increasing costs
of.tuition charged by the State Department's'Foreign
Service-Institute, the Civil Service Commission, and by
universities. Also, the Department of Defense has begun
to charge-fees-.for CIA personnel attending some..Defense
courses which heretofore were cost-free. Finally, the
increase in FY 1979 external training over FY 1978 is to
cover training, including attendance in scientific,
technical, engineering and international economics courses
which had been planned for FY 1978, but deferred because
of the cut.
5. There---is another aspect - of externals trai.ning.whi ch. has not been
resolved. In.E.O. 12036>,-2-303 (Restrictions on Contracting), Agency
sponsorship must. be known. This would affect Agency personnel-under
cover. OGC is reviewing this problem and will determine the impact on
external training. Following their decision, an External Training
Regulation (update) will be issued.
Frank''C'.`,Carl
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
Director of the National Foreign Assessment Center
Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Chairman, Executive Career Service Board
FRAM : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Enrollment in Management and Senior Officer Schools
1. Professional.. development is a prime concern in the personnel
management of the Agency.. You have identified in your.Personnel
Development Program (PDP) those officers judged to have the qualifi-
cations and potential for eventual. assignment to senior management
and executive positions. It is in the Agency's interest to insure
that the development experiences planned and implemented for these
officers, including attendance at specific training courses, are
designed to achieve maximum benefits for the officer and the Agency.
The Senior Training Officers of the Career Services should be the
referent for that part of the PDP planning involved with the formal
training courses.
2. I wish to reaffirm that the candidates for the management
courses-and senior officer schools be individuals who have been PDP
identified. The monitoring for PDP status is a responsibility of the
Career Service and enrollment in the attached list of courses--will
require-the- personal--certification of the Career Training Officer that.
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the nominee is on' the 'Career Service's PDP Executive- List--or Executive
Poster-List, as appropriate to the grade requirements of the course.
Exceptions may-be-granted., by the.. Director of but -must be: fully
justified.. The..fulfillment of a. quota is not a j. acceptable reason.
Info: DCI
D/Personnel
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