EXECUTIVE TRAINING PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B01152R001001300042-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2008
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: July 5, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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5 July 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
FROM: Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: Executive Training Program
I concur with the recommended approach in paragraph 6 of
your memorandum to the Executive Director. I would add the
following comments:
-- The Program should be limited to SIS-01s and 02s. The
shotgun approach of trying to choose who among the
entire GS-15 population will become supergrades results
in the waste of considerable training resources on GS-
15s who will always remains GS-15s. By taking new
SISers, you cut the candidate population to manageable
proportions and make it possible to contemplate
provi'ding training for virtually all senior officers-to-
be in the Agency.
By working with a smaller candidate population, you also
make it possible to develop a program of seminars and
workshops that deal with issues that actually confront.
senior managers and are very concrete (vice the more
abstract or philosophical approach). For example, these
officers should be exposed to the Agency-wide budgeting
process and the tradeoffs that take place,,Congressional
affairs, public affairs, how the Agency fits into the
NFIP and practical senior management issues.
-- I would have found your memorandum more useful had it
indicated what the significant differences were in the
approaches taken by various components as well as the
perceived needs and recommendations for an Executive
Training Program. Should there be an EXCOM on this
subject, I would recommend a summary of those
differences be provided. Moreover, I think it would be
especially useful to have summaries of the positions
taken by those who will be attending the EXCOM,
including explicit identification of those who hold that
view to help focus the discussion. Such candor is -
characteristic of EXCOM meetings and could be useful.
ober Gates
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