TRAINING OFFICE SURVEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP55-00001A000100150007-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 4, 1952
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2G Q4
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COPY SECURITY INFOaM.ATICN 4 January 1952
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Administration)
SUBJECT : Training Office Survey
The attached papers involve two training problems:
1. A report to the Office of Training relative to training ac-
tivities being conducted in the Administrative Offices in-
dependent of O/TR.
We have complied with this to Matt Baird's satisfaction.
2. Our comments on a proposed Professional Administrative Of-
ficer Training Program are solicited.
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In my opinion, our offices missed the boat on this one
(Procurement and Management partially excepted) in that they
appear to have approached the Program from the point of
view of what they needed to run their own offices without
very much consideration to the responsibility for providing
competent, professional Administrative Officers throughout
the Agency. Consequently, in general they said that we were
doing "OK" and could best train our own Administrative Of-
ficers on the job, etc. They also indicated little willing-
ness to contribute to such a program in the form of instruc-
tors, etc.
I can sight many instances in which Personnel has been
unable to find even Junior Administrative Officers and as-
sistants for assignment to the operating and intelligence
offices when they needed them which resulted in either send-
ing incompetents to do the jobs or delaying assignments for
many months while the offices or divisions themselves did
the training.
In brief, I think that there is a definite need for such
a Program and that we should be primarily interested in
sponsoring and supporting it in every way possible. With
your concurrence, I will so advise Matt Baird and assist him
in every way possible to get such a Program on the rails.
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L. K. White
L. K. WHITE
istant Deputy Director
(Administration)
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