WEEKLY REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00998R000100110001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 1, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Administration
Director of Training and Education
SUBJECT : Weekly Report
* 1. On 25 September, OTE's Language Training Division hosted a meeting
of the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR),. Sixty participants from 20
government agencies and several other academic organizations discussed
and exchanged information on many topics including testing, computer-based
testing and teaching, materials development, and research. Of particular
interest was the fact that the State Department, the CIA and the Defense
Language Institute are conducting major reviews of their Russian language
programs. All those agencies agreed on consulting and pooling resources to
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* 2. OTE is conducting a comprehensive review of its Russian language
training program. A vital part of the review process is that our customers,
particularly the DO, are involved. Also participating are a Russian language
specialist from NSA and Professor Gerard Ervin, Director of the Foreign
-Language Center at Ohio State University. - The purpose of the review. is to
make sure that our training program meets the needs of our customers. A
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* 3. The third offering of an Outward Bound course for SIS officers
and selected GS-15s was held at the Hurricane' Island Outward Bound':School
Rockland, Maine, 20-27 September 1987. Eleven senior officers, including
one woman, representing all Directorates and the DCI Area participated in
the program in addition to the OTE course facilitator. At the end of the
course, all were very enthusiastic about the value of the experience to them
and unequivocally endorsed the Outward Bound Program. Several commented
that this was the best and most worthwhile management type training they
had experienced in their entire careers.
* 4. OTE's Secretarial Training Branch conducted a special running of
Time Management in the Headquarters Auditorium on 25 September for 107 students.
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SUBJECT: Weekly Report
5. Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President
Carter, presented an interesting lecture on "Geostrategic Considerations
for the 1990s: Implications for Intelligence" in the Headquarters Auditorium
on 24 September. Approximatley 400 people attended. Dr. Brzezinski focused
on the U.S.-Soviet rivalry in three.regions--Europe, the Far East, and
Southwest Asia. He also suggested that the Agency should play an educational
role in "structuring. the President's vision of the world" by providing him
with an understanding of strategic. changes and historical tree d
presentation was sponsored by OTE's Soviet Realities Institute.
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29 September 1987
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
Chief, Secretarial, Administrative, and
Communications Training Division
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SUBJECT: Weekly Report
1. The Communication Training Branch (CTB) is experiencing an upsurge in
the demand for briefing skills training.CTB this week is, conducting a
scheduled Briefing Techniques Course and two special runnings, one for the DI
and another for OP. Two additional requests for briefing skills training for
September had to be turned down for lack of resources. The three concurrent
runnings of briefing skills is a first for CTB.
2. Effective Decisionmaking for Secretaries, the fourth in the series of
elective credit programs for Agency Secretaries, is running this week at
Twenty-three secretaries are attending this three-day
3. ,Secretarial Training Branch conducted a special running of Time
Management. in the Headquarters Auditorium on 25 September for 107 students.
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29 September 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
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SUBJECT- IT Weekly Report
President's vision of the world" by providing him with an understanding
of strategic changes and historical trends
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Nationa Se rity Advisor to President Carter,
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2. Martha Mautner's lecture on "The USSR: Future Challenges for
the United States" was a fitting and thoughtful conclusion to the USSR
Country Survey Course on Friday afternoon, 25 September. Ms. Mautner
INR, Department of state) highlights factors of both continuity and
change in drawing upon study of the Soviet Union that dates back to her
first tour in Moscow in 1945. Ms. Mautner's lecture followed the class
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trip that morning to the Soviet Awareness Program at Bolling AFB.
3. Briefing Technical Materials ran from 14 - 18 September with
13 students in attendance. the independent contractor
who is the primary instructor, continues to get rave reviews with all but
one student giving him a "5" for "instructor effectiveness." The overall
course rating was 4.7. No course format changes are contemplated for the
next running which is scheduled for 16 - 20 November. ~
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The second running of TIB's Understanding Terrorism took place
20 - 23 September. Twenty-two stu ents representing all four
directorates and the DCI's office attended. Nearly everyone complained
about how hard they worked, i.e., from 0800 to 2200 followed by a
one-hour test at the end indicated an extremely high learning curve and
students gave the course an overall rating of 3.9 on a 5-point scale.
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28 September 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
Chief, Language Training Division
SUBJECT: Language Training Division Weekly Report
1. On 25 September, t"eA Language Training Division hosted a meeting
of the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR). Sixty participants from 20
government agencies and several other academic organizations discussed
and exchanged information on many topics including testing, computer-
based testing and teaching, materials development, and research. Of
particular interest was the fact that the State Department, the CIA and
the Defense Language Institute are conducting major reviews of their
Russian language programs. All those agencies agreed on consulting and
pooling resources to avoid courseware duplicationq,
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3. Vietnamese instructor I (gave a presentation
to NEA on 25 September on effective use of Voice America tapes for
intermediate language students. This was the third in a series of NEA
instructor demonstration sessions.
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4. On 23 September 1987 the LTD Russian Program Review was launched
b and a cast of thousands. Q reported to the LTD
Russian faculty and management on the results of NSA Russian specialist,
visits to LTD Russian classes as well as on the results
of interviews and of the 1,TT) aupstionnaire which had been sent to former
LTD Russian student
Professor Gerard Ervin, Director of the Foreign Language Center at
Ohio State University, also took part in the review and then proceeded on
the 23rd and 24th to develop a plan for curriculum revision. The Russian
instructors are now finalizing their choice of a text which will
partially influence how the new LTD course will be structured.
An even more vital part of the structuring comes from the invaluable
customer input, especially from the DO, input which will be
systematically integrated into the new course. The goal of the new
course is functional foreign language which counts with LTD consumers.
impaired Information Management Staff (IMS) employees on 30 September. A
course graduate also from IMS will serve as sign language interpreter.
5. Korean instructor) will conduct a special
half-day segment of the Korean transliteration course for two hearing-
6. There were 46 reading and 48 oral proficiency tests the past week
compared to 32 reading and 53 oral proficiency tests the previous week.
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29 September 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
Chief, Training Support Division
SUBJECT: TSD Weekly for Week of 27 September 1987
1. As part of our campaign to improve the flow of information
on courses, this week OTE (TSD/ITB) forwarded, for the first time,
five Special Bulletins on line via AIM to 49 Agency Training
Officers and Training Assistants. We will follow up to see how the
components use aI n ai tribute these bulletins and how widespread
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29 September 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
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Chief, Leadership Development Division
Office of Training and Education
SUBJECT: LDD Weekly Report (U)
,/ and selected GS-15s was held at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound
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School. Rockland- Maine 20 - 27 SentemhPr 1QR7_ 'Pleven cPninr nffirarc
including one woman, representing all Directorates and the DCI Area
participated in the program in addition to the OTE course facilitator,
coast in the Penobsco Bay area. Activities included a threeday sailing
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experienced a wide range o wind, wave, tide..-anti eather conditions, and
as a group had to meet and o rcome,.a-'va"riety of. very difficult
challenges. Also included iwerrhe challenges of rock climbing and
rappelling from a 10 foot grani cliff, and a ropes course. Each
participant had,~an overnight solo re he or she was "dropped off" oil an
unoccupied as-land and picked up the lowing day. There were also a
numbex of -initiatives" where the group s a group had to accomplish
tasks with an:mum-ofre ices in a sho perio o ime.
end of the course, all were very enthusiastic about the value o#lthe
experience to them and unequivocally endorsed the Outward Bound Program.
..fie-rneveral commented that this was the best and most worthwhile
management type training they had experienced in their entire careers.
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2. I (presented a case study on the Agency's employment
system.to Midcareer #102. The case study allowed the students to examine
the problems that plagued the Agency's recruiting problem in the
mid-1980s, and provoked a constructive discussion of the administrative
issues involved. (U)
3. The Looking Glass Workshop run 14 - 18 September received a
rating of 4.4 overall. Two students cancelled at the last minute. Dick
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C/MTB, did his first f e certifying runs as an LGI trainer.
He worked with (U)
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SUBJECT: LDD Weekly Report (U)
4. The Managing in CIA course ran 21 - 23 September received a rating of
.4.4 with a "would recommend to others" rating of 4.8. Management Action Plan
segment received its highest rating to date, 4.15. The students recommended
that the manager consultant on the last day be used to help students with
their action plans rather than serving as a question and answer panel. We may
try this in October. (U)
5. helped the Office of Personnel run a Recruiter
Training ors op 24 - 25 September. Feedback was positive. (U)
is doing his first co-chair of POCM with contractor
28 September - 2 October. POCM Program
airwoman, who arrived 29 September to do segments reports that John has the
class well in hand. (U)
7.I lis doing her first co-trainin run in the Positive Power
and Influence Elective with contractor 28 - 30 September in room
507 CofC. Several OTE people including three MTB trainers are attending as
students. (U)
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29 September 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
STAT FROM:
Chief, Information Systems Training Division
SUBJECT: ISTD Weekly 9/23-29/87
The second monthly review meeting for the EXTRA Project was held in
Rosslyn on 24 September. The project is on schedule, and our Proof of
Concepts system should be delivered in March 1988.
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Administration Division Weekly
21-25 September 1987
Conferencing
Scheduled IC Staff Conference for 8-9 November (Sunday and Monday) per
request of DCI. This involved rescheduling conferences for OF and NSA.
Miscellaneous
Family Visitation Day on 26 September was attended by approximately 85
people.
Budget & Finance
DC/B&F and Disbursing Officer settled the final accountings for the
C/PB attended the DA Personnel Officers meeting on 21 September.
Briefings were given on a new CSGA report and on a questionnaire that has been
developed for distribution to Agency employees concerning the benefits package
of the HRMCT'F.
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Personnel
On 23 September, the Senior Career Panel held the semi-annual review of
GS-15 MT careerists.
presentation will be videotaped.
Issued OTE Instructions on Career Evaluation Process. Arranged for
D/OTE's briefing on 28 September to all OTE Panel members. D/OTE's
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Received a total of eight nominations for Employee of the Trimester
(May-August).
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Converted seven people in Language School from full-time to part-time.
Title Office Grade Date
Instructor WOTD/CIB GS-15 09/22/87
Instructor ISTD/CATB GS-10 09/25/87 (Maternity)
Registry
RMO completed a partial Records Inventory for Language Training Division;
thus far approximately three safe drawers of materials were designated for
destruction.
RMO sent notice to several offices re audit of Agency Forms requesting
they advise of any obsolete forms.
RMO with CSI completed 16 FOIA cases re requests for articles published
in "Studies in Intelligence."
Logistics
On 23 September,C/LOGS met with of P&PD Copier Management
to review all OTE outstanding copy requests for updating present copiers as
well as adding additional ones.
Logistics Branch met with C/AD to discuss issues currently facing the
Branch as well as goals for the future. The discussion will continue at a
future session.
1st Floor:
-- No date as yet for moving the guards.
-- C/LOGS and C/AD met with local contractor. to discuss re-doing the
guard counter.
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