PROPOSAL BY(Sanitized) FOR PRODUCTION OF A COURSE ON PLANNING, PROGRAMMING, AND BUDGETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R001500100015-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 30, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT Proposal by Ifor Production of a
Course on Planning, rr . ramtning, and Budgeting
1. This memorandum contains a recommendation for your approval;
this recommendation is contained in paragraph 10.
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Z. A :, a result of the meeting with you on 5 August, I has
ed a proposal to create a five-day package of instructional material
to increase general understanding of planning and programming responsibil-
ities and methods. His proposal, which is attached, spells out the objectives,
the content, the methods and costs of his program.
proposal for the following reasons:
a. It not only provides for teaching theory and methods of planning
in general but it puts heavy emphasis on getting students to examine
their attitudes toward planning and should promote better understanding
and more favorable attitudes.
b. It will mesh in with this background a good grounding in PP1
as it is intended to be practiced in the Agency.
c. The training design provides for active learning (similar to
that of the Managerial Grid) rather than consisting solely of a. series
of lectures, and should generate lively enthusiasm or at least a sympa-
thetic understanding of planning as a tool of management and of p'I'B
as the management tool of CIA.
4. We do not have the capability to work out as effective a program as
who has an experienced staff and a program which has already been
tested in several industrial and financial organizations. so has ac-
quired a certain insight into Agency management problems a,no has person-
ally achieved a high degree of acceptance from the group which has taken
the Grid.
5. Ilalternative proposal which is to provide an outline wl.ich
the Agency would then develop into a course does not appear to rte to be
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feasible o,? attractive. Even using his outline OTR would have to work much
more slowly, and the result would be less professional than what[and 25X1
his group could provide if given the entire responsibility.
6. The cost quoted by does not appear to be excessive for this kind
of proposal. In our origina iscussions with him it was thought that a two-
day seminar (developed at a cost of $3, 000 or $4, 000) would be sufficient for
our purposes, but the conference with on 5 August seemed to establish
the need for a bigger effort in order to get the desired results.
7. If we assume that 1, 000 students (GS-13 and above) will take this
course in a two- ear eriod, the cost per student for having the entir-= pack-
age provided byorks out to $68 per student ($30, 000 initial cot plus
950 students at $40 each) which is less than we pay for most one-week exter-
nal programs. It is also less than the cost of the Managerial Grid per stu-
dent. Note that after the initial running the cost would be solely for training
materials; 0TR would conduct the seminar.
8. The proposed course probably could be ready in early 1967, if L
started work now. Assuming five runnings of 50 students each for the re-
mainder of FY 67, costs would be $30, 000 for development, $10, 000 for
student training materials or a total FY 67 cost of $40, 000.
9. Funds for PPB training were disallowed in the FY 67 Program Call.
We cannot at this time project savings which could be made available to fi-
nance this project. Therefore, if the contract for this training is approved,
the required funds will have to come from other sources.
10. In view of the importance of the subject I recommend;
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a. Approval of the attached proposal by to develop 25X1
the total program for an Agency course in P .
b. Allocation of $40, 000 to OTR to cover the development of the
program ($30, 000) and to pay for training materials for 250 studtnta
($10, 000).
John Ric and o
John Richarda&
Director of Training
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The recommendation contained in paragraph 10 is approved.
SIGNED B. C. Banaennair
for Support
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