AN INTORDUCTION TO TRAINING IN THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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"The commonwealth requires the education of her
people as the safeguard of order and liberty."
?Thomas Jefferson
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In the Central Intelligence Agency
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You may come to the CIA with any specialty.
Your goal is to become an intelligence officer.
In college you may have studied accounting or biology or
chemistry or demography or economics or foreign lan-
guages or geography or history or international relations,
but college is not where you learn to become an intelli-
gence officer.
That you learn in the CIA, on the job and in training.
Training is part of the job in CIA, not only at the
beginning of your career but throughout it.
This is one of the things that make CIA service unique.
You are always learning. You have to.
Through training you develop the special expertise you
need to execute your special duties as an intelligence
officer.
Training is key to your performance, your growth, your
contribution to carrying out the mission of the CIA.
CIA has a commitment to your continuing education.
The purpose of this brochure is to afford a quick look at
the training opportunities for you, courses that can help
you do a better job, develop the special skills of intelli-
gence, enhance your understanding of the CIA mission
and your role in it, and prepare you for more challenging
assignments.
Here is a glimpse?and only a glimpse?at the training
CIA offers you.
"The things taught in schools and colleges are not
an education, but the means of education."
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The foundation of every state is the education of
its youth."
?Diogenes
Your CIA training naturally begins with orientation
courses designed to acquaint you with the organization,
its functions, and the contribution of each operating
element to the intelligence process. These courses high-
light your responsibility as an intelligence officer.
Through lectures, group discussions, and case studies
you gain a better understanding of issues that affect each
employee: personnel management, equal employment
opportunity, upward mobility, and security. You view
the Agency in terms of the functions it performs: the
collection, production, and dissemination of intelligence.
You learn how CIA components work together to sup-
port national security objectives. You gain an apprecia-
tion of the ethical concerns and cultural values of the
intelligence family.
In addition to orientation courses with an Agency-wide
scope, CIA provides introductory training to match the
specific requirements of the element you are working for
and the discipline you are working in.
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"A man always makes himself greater as he
increases his knowledge."
?Samuel Johnson
CIA's mission is foreign intelligence, and CIA's training
stresses foreign studies in support of that mission.
Your responsibility as an intelligence officer is to become
expert on the countries and regions of your assignment.
In courses that focus on topical problems or geographic
regions, you have an opportunity to exchange ideas and
information with authorities from academe, private in-
dustry, and government.
The Regional and Societal Training Program, for exam-
ple, presents courses such as the Seminar on Revolution
in Latin America, Communism in the Contemporary
World, and the Survey of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Soviet Realities Institute provides Agency offi-
cers tailored instruction on the USSR.
This training offers you a unique combination of
exposure to academic thinking on a region or issue
coupled with information and analysis available only
through CIA.
The Rapidly Advancing Technologies and Defense
Industries courses examine the latest technological
developments, often using information gathered on
field trips to domestic industrial establishments as a
base of comparison for studying developments in other
parts of the world.
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"Languages are the pedigrees of nations."
Samuel Johnson
For an intelligence officer, fluency in a foreign language
can be as basic as breathing. This applies not only if you
are working overseas but also in many tasks to which you
may be assigned domestically. CIA tailors its language
training to suit your specific professional needs, to equip
you with reading, speaking, or listening skills for virtual-
ly any requirement.
Full-time training lasts from six months for languages
like Spanish or Indonesian to a year or more for the more
complex languages like Farsi or Chinese. In classes of
two to six students, you learn to function both socially
and professionally in the target languages.
Although the traditional grammatical foundation forms
the core of virtually all courses, your professional capa-
bilities will be developed from the start. You are taught
specific functions (persuading, denying, contradicting,
requesting) with ever increasing degrees of sophistication
as the course progresses. For example, you might learn to
persuade a foreign national, in his own language, to
provide intelligence to the US government. You refine
these skills in grammar drills, computer-assisted instruc-
tion, role-playing situations, and free and controlled
conversations dealing with real-life situations and cur-
rent events.
You experience cultural aspects from the first day.
Special exercises and videotapes have been designed to
expand your cross-cultural insights and to reduce culture
shock. You will also learn military, economic, political,
and scientific terminologies as required. On occasion,
total immersion programs supplement classroom instruc-
tion. Placed in an isolated environment, you speak, hear,
and read only the target language. The detail gets down
to a variety of accents. You may even be sent abroad for
language training.
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You also can enroll in part-time courses designed to
accommodate your work schedule and individual circum-
stances. For employees and spouses whose responsibil-
ities do not require a high degree of language proficien-
cy, there are short familiarization courses. Having
completed one of these, you should be able to use the
target language in "survival" situations, such as when
traveling, arranging meetings, or exchanging personal
information.
To underscore its conviction that superiority in foreign
language skills is essential to achieving superiority in
foreign intelligence, CIA has a language incentive pro-
gram which rewards you for learning a new language,
for maintaining or increasing a language skill you al-
ready possess, and for using the language to meet a work
requirement.
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"Learning is the eye of the mind."
?Thomas Draxe
Clerk or manager, analyst or librarian, secretary or
engineer, communicator or accountant, word processor
or illustrator, clandestine operator or public affairs spe-
cialist?no matter what your assignment as an intelli-
gence officer, CIA offers general skills training to help
you do your job more effectively.
A principal objective of intelligence is accuracy, not just
in conveying information to others but in getting right
the information others convey to you. Thus there are
courses and workshops on listening, on conducting inter-
views, on reading for speed and comprehension, and on
other methods of acquiring information accurately.
Communications skills?clear writing and effective
briefing?can make the difference between success or
failure, in an operation or a career. CIA training stresses
the development and refinement of these skills. You can
take writing courses throughout your career, progressing
from the essentials through the advanced and special-
ized. To meet the needs of those who must brief, CIA
courses provide strategies for analyzing an audience,
organizing material, and handling questions. You may
be addressing your colleagues, or congressmen. All com-
munications courses are designed to help you interpret
and explain the issues we face in intelligence.
For clerical employees, CIA courses range from typing
and shorthand to the latest and most sophisticated word
processing techniques. Other courses prepare both cleri-
cal employees and managers to function in a paperless
office.
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Analysis
"The fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for
the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it
furnishes."
?C. Bernard
The scraps of raw intelligence reporting flow in from all
sources?human, technical, clandestine or published. By
themselves these items may seem meaningless, but you
fit them together to form a clearer picture of what is
going on. Then, with further evaluation and a presenta-
tion tailored to the policymakers' needs, you produce
finished intelligence. You do not walk in off the street
with this capability. You acquire it through experience
and training. CIA has courses fashioned especially to
help you master the art and science of intelligence
analysis.
These courses cover research, collation, and presentation
techniques for new analysts and, for supervisors, the
special requirements of managing analytic programs.
There are classes and seminars for military, economic,
political, and science and technology specialists, plus
guidance on how to weave the functional approaches into
multidisciplinary analysis. The training involves exer-
cises in modeling and simulation, case studies in intelli-
gence successes and failures, and examinations of pro-
ducer-consumer relations.
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"No man ever undertakes an art or a science
merely to acquire knowledge of it. In all human
affairs there is always an end in view?of pleasure,
or honor, or advantage."
?Polybius
As an operations officer, you are expected to function in
the international environment to collect information in
support of American foreign policy. Courses in foreign
relations, interpersonal skills, and clandestine activity
help you develop the unique, professional capabilities you
must command to apply your trade in every part of the
world, often in challenging situations.
The techniques intelligence officers must master in
certain endeavors extend beyond the skills of the office to
those of the street, the workshop, the laboratory. You
acquire these special skills only through CIA training.
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"The brighter you are the more you have to
learn."
?Don Herold
In CIA, the computer terminal is almost as common as
the pencil. You use the computer to write, to calculate, to
draw, to send and receive mail, to compile data bases and
to extract information, to support intelligence collection
and analysis, for administration, for production, for
memory, for speed, for precision, for efficiency.
The purpose of CIA information systems training is to
equip you with the skills you need to use the CIA's
computer capability effectively on the job. You take this
training in classrooms with a terminal for each student,
with emphasis on hands-on practical exercises. Introduc-
tory courses take a few days. Learning to operate the
more complex systems requires sessions of one to two
weeks.
For computer programmers and other automated data
processing specialists, CIA has extensive course offerings
both internally and externally. In special applications for
intelligence, computer science advances constantly, and
so does the training for it.
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"Learning is a kind of natural food of the mind."
Cicero
Intelligence is not glamor; it is realism, in all assign-
ments and at all levels. Realism for you as an intelligence
officer is to recognize that you work in a large, complex
organization. You have to learn the bureaucratic func-
tions, the nuts and bolts of government operations, the
administrative procedures that make the organization
run. CIA administrative training deals with the nitty-
gritty of how to get you paid and placed where you are
needed and supplied with what you must have to do your
work. You may learn how to arrange travel or write
regulations or prepare budgets.
Accounting, communications, logistics, records manage-
ment?these and many more skills and procedures con-
tribute to the smooth administration of a government
unit, large or small. CIA administrative courses prepare
you to handle the unique requirements of a unique
organization.
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Only the educated are free."
Epictetus
CIA training is devoted to your career development. In
addition to the specific skills training you take to learn
your job and the substantive studies you pursue to
broaden your understanding of the world, you take
courses which help you become a more effective employ-
ee and which assist you in time management and stress
control. As your career progresses, the training continues
with courses adapted to specific stages of your profes-
sional development.
Many Agency professionals begin CIA service in the
Career Training Program, a year which mixes formal
courses with interim assignments for on-the-job
experiences.
The goal of CIA management training is to help you
improve your performance as part of an office team, to
work productively for and with others, and to become an
effective leader. Developmental courses focus on organi-
zational dynamics and on the blending of career goals
with organizational needs. In these courses you learn
more about yourself, your co-workers, your boss, and
how to integrate the strengths of all into a smoothly
functioning unit.
CIA's executive development program is committed to
preparing the new generation of senior officers to assume
executive duties and responsibilities and to offer a
continuing education for the Agency's top managers.
Finally, as you approach the completion of your career.
CIA offers seminars to prepare you for retirement.
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"Every man who rises above the common level has
received two educations: the first from his teach-
ers; the second, more personal and important, from
himself"
?Edward Gibbon
Just as a large corporation may have regional or func-
tional divisions, CIA has four major directorates. A
person working in one of these corporate or governmen-
tal units may not have much opportunity to meet people
from other units. One of the most significant advantages
you gain from CIA training is the opportunity to move
beyond the barriers of compartmentation that any large
organization must erect. By taking courses with intelli-
gence officers from other components, you stretch your
understanding of the CIA mission beyond the limits of
your own directorate. You learn how your own contribu-
tion complements those of others in your class. You see
the other side of problems. You work with new col-
leagues to arrive at new solutions. You build your own
network. You make friends who will be important to you
throughout your career.
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"The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and
to guide men by showing them facts amidst
appearances.-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
CIA sponsors external training for its employees at
universities and colleges. The arrangement usually is for
a course two or three evenings a week, but it can extend
to full-time sponsorship for a semester or more. CIA also
sends intelligence officers off for training at government
facilities such as the Foreign Service Institute of the
Department of State, military bases and commands and
the senior war colleges of the Department of Defense,
and to courses at the National Security Agency, the
Department of Energy, the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment, the General Services Administration, the Smithso-
nian Institution, and the Library of Congress. In addi-
tion, CIA sponsors training for its employees at
industrial installations and institutes in the private
sector.
In another special program established for the conve-
nience of employees, the Agency is the campus and its
most competent and experienced officers, the instructors.
For taking evening courses in Agency classrooms, you
receive academic credits which can be transferred to
most educational institutions. Current course offerings
range from macroeconomics and human behavior in
organizations to the foreign policy of the USSR and
nonfiction writing.
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What you see in this brochure is but a glimpse of the
training CIA has for you. Course offerings change
with the changing requirements of intelligence. What
never changes is CIA's emphasis on training: it is part
of the job, not only at the beginning of your career but
throughout it.
"Those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as
far as fact.-
?T.H. Huxley
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