REACTIONS TO OTR S BRIEFING NOTEBOOK

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Director of Training
DD/S
Mr. Colby
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Routing Sheet covers DD/S 71-4150: Memo for Acting ExDir-Compt thru DD/S
subj: Reactions to ?Tilts Bnefing Notebook frm Director of Training dated
29 October 1971
DTR-6869
29 October 1971 STAT
1 to 3:
I apologize for delaying this
paper but asked Hugh Cunningham
to expand the original version to
Include some additional data. You
might be interested in the following
Information concerning average ages
of all instructor personnel currently
on duty in OTR.
ST Designees 48.08
DD/P Rotational 48.40
DD/S Rotational (3) 48.33
DWI Rotational 48.43
(includes 1 DD/S&T)
All Rotationals 48.41
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29 October 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Executive Director-Comptroller
THROUal : Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT : Reactions to OTR's Briefing Notebook
REFERENCE : Memo to DTR frm A/Ex. Dir. -Compt. dtd
18 Oct 71, subJ: The Office of Training
1. Thank you for your interest and comments. Here is a brief
discussion of three of your points; 1 shall discuss in a separate paper the
vastly more complex problem of competence in foreign languages.
2. Two things must be done if we are to lower the average age of our
Instructors and the gap between our instructors and the student body. We
have been trying to do both of them. First and most important, the Office of
Training has ceased a long-time practice of accepting 50-year or older officers
Into the ST Career Service. Our last three transferees were In their late
twenties or early thirties and two of them were ex-CTs. Three other educa-
tionally qualified younger OTR careerists are being prepared or have been
moved into teaching assignments; included in this trio are two women. The
other requirement, if we are to lower our average grade, is something that
we have tried very hard to do with the Clandestine Service and the other
Directorates, and that is to insist that rotational personnel assigned to OTR
as instructors be among the most promising younger officers in their thirties
or very early forties. We in O'TR have repeatedly observed the value of a
teaching assignment as a step in the development of an Agency officer in other
Directorates. If there is any doubt as to the tremendous importance given
such assignment by those who have had the experience, one needs only to
speak to officers who have served in OTR and then returned to their home
bases. The wisdom of having every CS officer serve one tour in his career
as a training officer was recognized by Des FftzGerald when he wrote on
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1 March 1966 the following to all Staff and Division Chiefs: "While I do not
wish at this time to make a teaching detail in OTR a requirement for promo-
tion, I do wish to emphasize that such a tour shall be considered, like the
mastery of a foreign language or a successful tour of duty abroad, or at kerne
as one of the important criteria to be considered in the overall evaluation of the
officer for promotion." Other than the pursuit of these two policies, as attri-
tion and other changes take place in our Table of Organization, I know no other
way in which we can bring the average age down to a more acceptable level..
4. The requirement for submission of a report on the total Agency
training effort stems from the Inspector General's Survey of the Office of
Training in 1967. In the report of the Survey dated November 1967, the IC
commented on our being hampered in our conducting training programs by
the lack of requirements from the customer component. Specifically, he was
concerned that objectives to be obtained through such programs were not being
identified; and he felt that the responsibility for this should be with the Deputy
Directors. He also noted that there was no Agency committee looking Into the
full Agency training effort and the need for such as part of our compliance with
Public Law and Executive Order. He specified that the Training Selection
Board, expanded accordingly, be redesignated as the Agency Training Committee
with full responsibility for this review. We did not concur in this recommenda-
tion and cotmterproposed ad hoc working committees, headed by senior officers
in OTR and with membership coming from the component concerned, to be the
media for further review. Colonel White accepted our proposal with the
reminder that the report would cover all Agency training.
UGH T. CUNNIN
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Director of Training
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1 March 1966 the following to all Staff and Division Chiefs: "While I do not
wish at this time to make a teaching detail in OTR a requirement for promo-
tion, I do wish to emphasize that such a tour shall be considered, like the
mastery of a foreign language or a successful tour of duty abroad, or at
home as one of the important criteria to be considered in the overall evalua-
tion of the officer for promotion." Other than the pursuit of these two
policies, as attritionand other changes take place in our Table of Organiza-
tion, I know no other way in which we can bring the average age down to a
more acceptable level.'
tc27,7.: HUGH T. CUNI\PNGHAtiVI
6irector of Training
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page 2 of the memo.
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COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
RECEIVED
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DD/S
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In response to the DDS's query the
following information is provided
for him only.
We have calculated the average ages
of all instructor personnel with the
following result:
ST Designees 48. 08
DDP Rotational 48. 40
DDS Rotational (3) 48. 33
DDI Rotational (includes 48. 43
1 DDS&T)
All Rotationals 48. 41
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17 September 1971
NOTE FOR: Mr. Coffey
Attached is the additional information about guest
speakers. As Rod told me, OTR cannot support the
contention that some speaker requests are filled "without
official approval" and/or by "officers not fully qualified
to handle the requirement."
My opinion is that should be followed and
that OTR must administratively control all guest speaking
engagements. Hopefully, Hugh Cunningham will not
have any trouble with this as long as he is not required
to judge a prospective speaker's credentials for a pro-
posed lecture--this, logically, must be the responsibility
of the Agency component most concerned with the sub-
stance of the presentation.
I will be surprised if Hugh can convince Colonel
White that OTR should not be responsible for central
control of guest speakers. Some office must be, given
the numerous and ever increasing requests for speakers;
and, OTR is the logical one.
I recommend the following:
a. You confer with Hugh upon his return from
Latin America to determine if he has changed his
mind or partially reversed his position. If he has
(and Rod thinks this may be the case), then some
could be proposed to Colonel White that would
reduce the likelihood of disapproval.
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b. Since Colonel White suggested a meeting in
his note, Hugh should get his day in court. But,
hopefully, he would have modified his position and
himself propose following I 'procedures.
c. Consider use of the draft memos as originally
proposed, after deleting the objectional sentence in
the longer one.
d. Instruct OTR to really get this under control
and to provide a periodic report until we are all sure
it is working properly.
LDP
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Officer-DD/S
Duane :
I think this problem needs to be sorted out a little
more clearly. Let me try. First of all let me address myself to the matter
quoted in the DD/S memo of 5 August 1971, DD/S 71-3092, in which there
is a reference to the "not qualified." This term has unfortunately gotten
out of context for in the draft which OTR prepared we said "in a few
instances by officers not fully qualified to handle the requirement" and
this reference arose principally out of the incident in which
Colonel White himself did not feel that was the man to make the
presentation at the FEI and made a substitution sending Paul Walsh down
to make the presentation to FEI. The few instances in which unqualified
presentations might have been made refers to that I mentioned on the
telephone to you today and also to the incident at the National War College
recently which was brought to Colonel White's attention by one of our
students at that college.
If I may say so the thing needed is a simple one--
and that is a strict adherence by all Directorates to the regulation as it
now stands and then an accurate centralization of information on guest
speaker presentations in the office of the Director of Training. I don't
believe that Mr. Cunningham will object to the centralization of the infor-
mation in OTR of who speaks where. I think that if the problem can be put
on that track we can go about our business.
Attached hereto, I am sending you about all the
information we are able to gather at this time. Please let me know if I
can be of any further assistance.
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Summary of the Agency's Efforts
in Providing Guest Speakers for Courses and Programs
Conducted by Other Government Organizations
and Non-Government Groups During FY 71
1. 689 presentations made by Agency guest speakers to outside
organizations have been identified.
2. 202 presentations were made in courses and programs conducted
by the Defense Intelligence School. This is the Agency's largest guest
speaker support effort to an outside organization.
3. 222 of the 689 presentations were made by personnel assigned to
OTR.
4. 190 different individuals making guest speaker presentations to
outside organizations have been identified. 100 from DDI (42 from NPIC*),
32 from DDP, 27 from DDS (21 from OTR), 17 from 0/DCI and DCI area,
14 from DDS&T.
*For NPIC, only presentations made to students in a regu-
larly conducted course or program were counted.
5. None of the data includes the assigned CIA representatives or
their presentations at the National War College, National Interdepart-
mental Seminar, Naval War College, Defense Intelligence School, and
25X1 thi 'Also not included are presentations by
Agency students attending the various courses and programs.
6. Attached is a list of organizations and groups covered in the OTR
Guest Speaker Study.
7. Getting information on external guest speaker activity has
required considerable time to find and explore a wide variety of different
sources; since the major Agency components have kept few or no records.
The following sources have been used:
a. Where we had a full-time Agency representative at the
facility, they completed the list of speakers;
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b. in the case of the National War College and Industrial
College of the Armed Forces, the college administrative offices
compiled the list;
c. external course schedules for the period of FY 71 were
reviewed for references to Agency speakers;
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d. Agency students attending external courses and programs
during FY 71 were interviewed to obtain names and dates of
Agency speakers at their respective facility;
e. a list of OTR external guest speaker presentations was
compiled;
f. the DDI Coordinator for Academic Relations provided
information on non-Government academic facilities;
g. Agency personnel known or believed to have given
external presentations were contacted. This in turn produced
the names of others who had given presentations at the same
facility;
h. since April '71, DDI personnel have on occasions
informed OTR that they had been requested or scheduled to speak
at an external training facility. This also provided information
on past activity.
8. The totals for guest speaker presentations and individuals for
FY 71 are about as complete as we can hope to obtain. The figures are
those which can be verified, and therefore should be regarded as mini-
mum.
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Agency for International Development
Armed Forces Staff College
Army War College
Brookings Institution
Defense Intelligence School
Department of State (for the Intelligence and Foreign Policy Course)
Federal Executive Institute
Defense Senior Interpretation and Application Training Program
DDI Coordinator for Academic Relations
Foreign Service Institute
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
International Police Academy
National Interdepartmental Seminar
National Security Agency
National War College
Naval War College
Non-Government Academic Groups briefed by OTR personnel
Private Groups briefed by OTR personnel
U.S. Army Intelligence School
USA JFK CMA - Fort Bragg, N. C.
USAF Special Operations School, Eglin AFB, Florida
USAF Academy
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DD/S 71-3092
5 AUG 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
Hugh:
As you already know Colonel White suggested
that we postpone the chat session on the proposed letters to departments
and agencies which have requested Agency officers as speakers until
he returns from leave. This will take us into early September.
Meanwhile, could you develop some additional specifics on the 600
requests and particularly on the many instances in which they were met
"without official approval" and/or by officers "not qualified." Colonel
White is obviously surprised at the total number and bothered by the
indications that the regulation is being ignored in many instances that
is, that DTR is not the automatic reference point as set up in the
regulation. We can set up to talk to Colonel White after he gets back
but I did suggest your reservations at going to the outside agencies to
Is_treeLai
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JoiaW. Coffey
Deluty Director
for Support
DD/S:JWC:11c (3 August 1971)
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Plans
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Deputy Director for Support
Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence
Programs Evaluation
Director of National Estimates
General Counsel
Inspector General
Legislative Counsel
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
: Response to Requests for Agency Officials
as Guest Speakers
: Memo frm Ex Dir to above adses, dtd
19 Mar 71, same subject
1. I am sending the attached letter to the head of each of the
U. S. Government facilities to which we regularly provide Agency
officers to address groups attending various types of training programs.
You will note that I am asking each of them to address his requests to
the Director of Training. This is a further step to implement the pro-
25X1 visions of and to establish a central reference point for
recording requests and maintaining information on the Agency's guest
speaker activity: The need for a central point of record has become
more apparent in view of the fact that approximately 600 requests
were fulfilled during the past fiscal year and that, in many instances,
they were fulfilled without official approval- -in a few instances, by
officers not fully qualified to handle the requirement.
2. In establishing the Office of Training as the central point for
requests, I am not. limiting Agency officers from accepting invita-
tions nor limiting your responsibility for arranging speakers in response
to requests. When a request is received by the Director of Training and
it identifies a particular officer to fill the engagement, the Director of
Training will send it to the Deputy Director in whose component the
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officer is assigned. If no one is identified, then the Director of
Training will send the request to the Deputy in whose component
there is the capability to represent the Agency. It will be the
respective Deputy's responsibility to handle the request, that is,
to approve the speaker if already identified, or to select one, and
then complete the necessary administrative details. As I mentioned
in the referent, you should not hesitate to decline an invitation if
you have good reason.
3. The speaker you assign will notify the OTR Guest Speaker
Coordinator of his acceptance and, upon return from the engagement,
if there were any untoward incidents or unusual reactions, he will
inform the Coordinator.
L. K. White
Executive Director
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a. letter
b. list of training facilities
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Dear
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Recent experience indicates that the number of invitations for
officials of this Agency to address groups at institutions such as yours
is on the increase. We wish to respond to these requests when we can,
but to avoid possible conflicts in scheduling our officers I ask that you
address your requests for speakers to the Director of Training,
Central Intelligence Agency.
This modification to our procedure is not intended to restrict you
in any way in asking for an officer whom you know from a previous
engagement or whose professional qualifications are thought to fit your
requirements. In all requests, however, I ask that you provide suffi-
cient information on the course or program in which our representative
will participate so that we can respond appropriately.
Thank you for your cooperation. I am confident it will assist us
in meeting your requirements.
Sincerely,
L. K. White
Executive Director
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Training Facilities
Air War College
Agency for International Development
Armed Forces Staff College
Army War College
Defense Intelligence School
Department of State (for the Intelligence and Foreign Policy Course)
Federal Executive Institute
Defense Senior Interpretation and Application Training Program
Foreign Service Institute
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
International Police Academy
National Interdepartmental Seminar
National Security Agency
National War College
Naval War College
Ti. S. Army Intelligence School
USA JFK CMA - Fort Bragg, N. C.
USAF Special Operations School, Eglin AFB, Florida
USAF Academy
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Director of Communications
The attached applies to all
components of the Support Directorate.
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Robert S. Wattles
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EO-DD/S:WEB:es (23 Mar 71)
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