EIGHTH AGENCY ORIENTATION COURSE

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THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
EIGHTH AGENCY ORIENTATION COURSE
conducted by
THE OFFICE OF TRAINING
in
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Auditorium
on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
November 18, 19, 20, 21, 1952
(0900 - 1200 hours each day
except Friday: 1000 -1300.)
IMPORTANT
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE ATTENDING
THE CIA ORIENTATION COURSE
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Transportation to and from the Auditorium
No arrangements can be made for those attending the Course to park
in the vicinity of the South Agriculture Building. Special Capital
Transit chartered busses, therefore, will leave one-half hour before the
Course each morning from :
A. The "loop" at the north end of "M" Building to transport those
persons whose offices are located in North, Central, South, Administra-
tion, "M", "Q",- and adjacent buildings.
B. Gate 9 in the rear of "K" Building to transport those persons
whose offices are located in "I", "J", "K", "L", and adjacent buildings.
C. o transport those persons whose offices are located
in that general area.
The busses will make a return trip to these two points at noontime.
Security
This training course, as a whole, is classified SECRET. You are
cautioned to watch your conversation going to and from the Auditorium.
Since passes are not shown upon entering the chartered Capital Transit
busses, anyone may be riding with you and overhearing your remarks.
You are also cautioned not to throw any classified papers on the floor
of the Auditorium. These should be taken back to your offices and
placed in secret trash. Any notes taken during the Course should be
classified appropriately and guarded with due care.
Promptness
The schedule for each day permits no leeway in time. Accordingly,
to maintain the pace commensurate with this demand, please plan to
be in your seats each morning at least five minutes before the scheduled
opening of the program. Coffee and soft drinks are not available in the
vicinity of the Auditorium. Because of this and the tightness of the
schedule, it is requested that all return to their seats prior to the end
of the break periods.
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Registration
Everyone will be expected to complete a registration card on each
morning of the Course. These cards, properly filled out, constitute the
official record of attendance at the Course. An attendant will collect
the cards as you leave the Auditorium.
Question and Answer Periods
A question and answer period will be held at the end of most of the
presentations. For your individual and collective benefit all are strongly
urged to participate in these sessions. Question cards will be provided,
and will be picked up by attendants.
Intelligence Bibliography
In this program is included a bibliography for those in the field of
intelligence. This list is far from exhaustive and is to be considered
suggestive of the type of material which should be read to increase one's
knowledge of intelligence and related subjects.
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- Program -
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TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 18
BACKGROUND
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WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 19
SUPPORT AND COORDINATION
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THURSDAY - NOVEMBER 20
THE PRODUCTION FUNCTION
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FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 21
THE IMPACT OF INTELLIGENCE
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FIRST DAY (Tue: day, November 18, 1952)
BACKGROUND
Time
Topic
Speaker
0900 - 0905
OPENING REMARKS
CIA Orientations Officer
0905 - 0910
STATEMENT OF THE DIREC-
Col. Matthew Baird
TOR OF TRAINING
0910 - 0930
INTRODUCTORY MESSAGE
Allen W. Dulles
0930 -1010
THE ESSENCE OF TODAY'S
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WORLD CRISIS
The world would be in a deep crisis today
even if the Soviet Bloc and the menace it poses
did not exist. Behind Fascism, Communism,
and all of the maladies of the past century
lie the following: the collap:;e of Europe and
the resultant international anarchy; the var-
ious waves of the industrial :-evolution, which
have upset the entire world just as the bar-
barian invaders did Europe, centuries ago;
and, above all, the thriving philosophical
attacks of the past century upon the concepts
which are the very foundation of Western
civilization, viz. government by law, the
brotherhood of man, the dignity of the in-
dividual, and the use of reason as an approach
to all problems.
1010 -1020 Question Period
1020-1035 BREAK
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FIRST DAY -Continued
Time Topic S eaker
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Definite steps to develop a national intelli-
gence organization were not taken until after
World War II. Since the initial effort in this
direction, many changes have been effected
under the regimes of the four directors. Be-
cause the organizational modifications have
been many, we are prone to lose sight of the
basic reasoning supporting them. We must
realize that the strength of the present is
based upon the underlying justification for
these changes.
1115-1125 Question Period
1125 -1150 SECURITY-A CONSTANT NEED Robert Bannerman
Security of information and operations is one
of the most important factors in the accom-
plishment of the CIA mission. Failure to
achieve security can result in the compromise
of our operations, and the drying up of our
sources of information. The strength of all
we do in every component of intelligence is
only as strong as our weakest security link.
Ensuring strong security, therefore, is the
task of every employee of CIA at all times.
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SECOND DAY (Wednesday, November 19, 1952)
Time Topic Speaker
0900 - 0905 HIGHLIGHTS OF PREVIOUS CIA Orientations Officer
DAY'S PROGRAM
0905 - 0930 ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT Col. Lawrence K. White
The goal of administrative officials is to re-
lieve those persons who are responsible for
operations and the production of intelligence
of as much of the business and administra-
tive detail involving men, money, and materiel
as possible. Administrative support is not an
incidental but an integral and vital part of
our operational and intelligence effort. It is
essential that it be carefully considered in all
phases of our operations and activities from
the early stages of planning through execu-
tion.
0930 - 0940 Question Period
0940 -1010 OVERT COLLECTION Fisher Howe
U.S. Dept. of State
Overt collection of raw information is a func-
tion as wide as the world ar.Ld as comprehen-
sive and diverse as all types of data. The
main overt collector in Gcvernment Is the
Dept. of State, through its far-flung Foreign
Service. The Attaches of the military estab-
lishment tie in with this operation. Such
broad and complex collection demands con-
tinual coordination. Furthermore, guidance,
both general and specific, must be given con-
stantly to the collectors. Many problems still
remain to be solved in this field.
1010 -1020 Question Period
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SECOND DAY - Continued
Time Topic Speaker
1035-1105 CIA's COLLECTION
All possible sources of information are ex-
ploited in the collection of raw data. A very
large bulk of the information useful to an in-
telligence agency comes from overt sources.
In addition, a tremendous volume of reports
come from official sources abroad. The most
vital aspects of the collection field are: first,
to know what information is available; and
secondly, to specifically request information
necessary to fill the gaps. Covert means of
collection are used only when overt means fail
or are impossible to use.
1105 -1115 Question Period
THE IAC IN OPERATION Brig. Gen. John B. Ackerman
Directorate of Intelligence
U.S. Air Force
The IAC was established to advise the Director
of Central Intelligence with respect to his
function of maintaining the relationships
essential to coordination between CIA and the
various U.S. intelligence organizations, as pro-
vided in the National Security Act of 1947.
The assistance given the DCI in strengthening
the over-all governmental intelligence struc-
ture is evidenced by the spirit of cooperation
which prevails within the IAC. The effects of
this coordination are particularily manifest in
the methods developed for individual agency
contributions to National Intelligence Esti-
mates. To illustrate the effects of the IAC
we must examine its present status, its prod-
ucts, recommendations and decisions.
1150 -1200 Question Period
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THIRD DAY (Thursday, November 20, 1952)
THE PRODUCTION FUNCTION
Time
Topic
Speaker
0900
- 0905
HIGHLIGHTS OF PREVIOUS
DAY'S PROGRAM
CIA Orientations Officer
0905
- 0935
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
Robert Amory, Jr.
Economic intelligence is not just the collection
of information. Neither is t produced only Panel Members
by those who write the final reports and esti-
mates. Between these two stands the research
machinery which supplies guidance to the
collector as to what pieces of additional in-
formation are most necessary to collect, and
which provide the final reports and estimates
with the most exhaustive analysis available
on the particular security problem under con-
sideration. The function of economic intelli-
gence is to mobilize all available data, to
analyze it, and to identify she critical gaps
in the puzzle which, if collectors could fill
them, would tend to solve the remaining un-
certainties. The function of CIA in this field
is confined largely to economic intelligence
on the Soviet Bloc and the coordination of
economic research performer. in other agen-
cies.
0935 - 1010 . CURRENT INTELLIGENCE Huntington Sheldon
The production of current .ntelligence is a
natural and essential function of any intelli-
gence organization which is near the locus of
plans, policies, and operations. This is true
both in a departmental and in a national
sense. The analogous function in the indi-
vidual presupposes a highly complex organism.
In an organization of individuals dedicated to
current intelligence there is presupposed at
least a common insistence upon truth and
speed. The atmosphere of current intelli-
gence is rather tense. Ideally the production
of current intelligence yielc.s a continuing
grasp of what is going on throughout the
foreign world now to which attention should
be paid, because of its actual or potential
danger to us or because of its actual or poten-
tial good for us. When a government is taken
by surprise in its relations or operations with
foreign states there has been a failure in cur-
rent intelligence, either in its production or in
its appreciation and use.
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Time Topic
1010-1020 Question Period
Speaker
1035-1115 SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE
Scientific intelligence encompasses foreign re-
search and development from the point of
pure research to that of production. Its role
is to assess the effect of science and tech-
nology upon the military, economic, political
and psycho-social capabilities and vulnerabili-
ties of other nations. A crucial aspect of this
role is the prediction of the development of
new weapons, equipment, and techniques. In
addition scientific activities may provide an
indication of intentions. Adequate scientific
intelligence will have a profound impact upon
our strategy, policies, and research and de-
velopment programs. Primary production re-
sponsibility for major subjects is allocated
between CIA and the military services. OSI
has a responsibility to the community for
producing intelligence within its allocated
area. At the same time, OSI is responsible
for providing the DCI and other offices of the
Agency with support in the entire scientific
intelligence field.
1115 -1150 NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
The bracket of intelligence to which the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency addresses most of its
attention is known as foreign positive in-
telligence. Foreign positive intelligence em-
braces many levels of knowledge and serves
many echelons of users. It ranges between
that which may serve purely local or tactical
uses to that which may serve for national
strategic planning. The latter we may call
national intelligence; national in the sense
that its primary service is to the national
security and in the sense that all important
intelligence arms of the national government
participate in producing it.
1150-1200 Question Period
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FOURTH DAY (Friday, November 21, 1952)
Time
Topic
Speaker
1000
- 1005
HIGHLIGHTS OF PREVIOUS
DAY'S PROGRAM
CIA Orientations Officer
1005
- 1040
INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION
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Foreign policy and national defense plans
cannot be stronger than the intelligence on
which they are based. While intelligence is
knowledge, it is more than f,Lcts. In support
of national security, intelligence, carefully
evaluated, must be able to reduce to a mini-
mum the element of surprise although it may
never be able to prevent an attack on our
country; it must provide the ;$ubstantive basis
for national policies, plans, and decisions;
and it must constantly challenge with new
estimates the assumptions on which policies
are based. The production of validated and
evaluated information interp:?eted within the
context of world trends is the unanimous
purpose and important cone ?rn of the sub-
stantive offices of CIA.
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Topic
Speaker
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FOREIGN INTELLIG
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PATTERNS
The Central Intelligence Agency is unique in
the history of intelligence organizations. The
1135-1145 Question Period
1145-1200 BREAK
Gen. Walter :Bedell Smith
1230 - 1300 SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION Guest
1300 ADJOURNMENT CIA Orientations Officer
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
(For those in the field 6f intelligence)
The following books range from the elementary to the advanced.
Intelligence personnel should select according to their background and
needs. The inclusion of any book in this list is not to be construed as
Agency endorsement of any or all of the material contained therein.
These books are available in the CIA Library or may be obtained
through the facilities of the CIA Library. Both title and author should
be used to expedite the withdrawal of any of these volumes.
INTELLIGENCE - METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
Title Author
Sub Rosa; the OSS and American Espionage
The Secret Services of Europe
Master Spy (English Edition: Chief of Intelligence)
Secrets of the British Secret Service
Germany's Underground
Handbook for Spies
Cloak and Dagger; the Secret Story of OSS
This Was My Choice
Soviet Spies
Strategic Intelligence
In Stalin's Secret Service
Operation Cicero
Epics of Espionage
The Red Spider Web
The German Secret Service
The Future of American Intelligence
The Atom Spies
Spy Catcher
Combat Intelligence
Smersh
The Meaning of Treason
Secret Missions
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
World Communism
Men Without Faces
The Great Globe Itself
Coming Defeat of Communism
ALSOP AND BRADEN
BOUCARD
COLVIN
COOKRIDGE
DULLES
FOOTE
FORD
GOUZENKO
HIRSCH
KENT
KRIVITZKY
MOYZISCH
NEWMAN
NEWMAN
NICOLAI
PETTEE
PILOT
PINTO
SCHWEIN
SINEVERSKY
WEST
ZACHARIAS
BORKENAU
BUDENZ
BULLITT
BURNHAM
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Struggle for the World
Red Masquerade
The Soviet Impact on the Western World
Blueprint for World Conquest
Witness
The Enemy Within: An Eyewitness Account of the
the Communist Conquest of China
Marxism, Is It a Science?
World Communism Today
Communism in Western Europe
Whole of Their Lives
Stalin's Satellites in Europe: Operation Plunder
Bolshevism, Theory and Practice
West and East of Tito
The, Theory and Practice of Communism
I Believed
Report of the Canadian Royal Commission
The Front is Everywhere
Darkness at Noon
The Yogi and the Commissar
The Counterfeit Revolution
The Red Decade
New Footprints of the Trojan Horse
Marx Against the Peasant
American Communism
1984
I Led Three Lives
A Communist Party in Action
The Rise of Modern Communism
Anatomy of a Satellite
Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao
The Red Prussian, The Life and Legend of Karl Marx
Anatomy of Communism
The Organizational Weapon; A Study of Bolshevist
Strategy and Tactics
Communism and the Conscience of the West
Lenin
Stalin
Verdict of Three Decades
Three Worlds
Seeds of Treason
Total Empire
Total Power
Balkan Caesar: Tito Versus Stalin
Three Who Made a Revolution
BURNHAM
CALOMIRIS
CARR
CHAMBERLIN
CHAMBERS
DE JAEGHER & KUHN
EASTMAN
EBON
EINAUDI
GITLOW
GLUCKSTEIN
GURIAN
HODGKINSON
HUNT
HYDE
KING'S PRINTER
KINTNER
KOESTLER
KOESTLER
LENS
LYONS
MAYER
MITRANY
ONEAL AND WERNER
ORWELL
PHILBRICK
Rossi
SALVADORI
SCHMIDT
SCHWARTZ
SCHWARZSCHILD
SCOTT
SELZNICK
SHEEN
SHUB
SOUVARINE
STEINBERG
TIMASHEFF
TOLEDANO AND LASKY
WALSH
WALSH
WHITE
WOLFE
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Slave Labor in Russia
Economic Geography of the USSR
One Who Survived
The Russian Revolution
Cracks in the Kremlin Wall
Russia's Race for Asia
Forced Labor in the Soviet Union
Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy
Soviet Russia and the Far East
The Big Three
The New Soviet Empire
The Real Soviet Russia
The Rise of Russia in Asia
One Great Prison; the Story Behind Russia's
Unreleased POW's
The Soviets in World Affairs
Why They Behave Like Russians
The Life and Death of Stalin
Soviet Opposition to Stalin
Tell the West
El Campesino: Life and Death in Soviet Russia
The Iron Curtain
The Soviet Union
Total Terror
Leap to Freedom
I Chose Freedom
The Operational Code of the Politburo
Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps
Russia, Past and Present
Soviet Politics-the Dilemma of Power
My Ringside Seat in Moscow
Stalin's Slave Camps
A History of Russia
My Retreat from Russia
It Happens in Russia
The Politburo
One of the Fifteen Million
My Three Years in Moscow
A History of Russia
How Strong is Russia?
AMERICAN FED. Or LABOR
BALZAK, VASYUTIN
AND FEIGIN
BARMINE
CHAMBERLIN
CRANKSHAW
CREEL
DALLIN
DALLIN
DALLIN
DALLIN
DALLIN
DALLIN
DALLIN
FEHLIN
FISCHER
FISCHER
FISCHER
FISCHER
GLIKSMAN
GONZALES
GOUZENKO
GURIAN
KALME
KASENKINA
KRAVCHENKO
LEITES
LIPPER
MAZOUR
MOORE
NYARADI
ORR
PARES
PETROV
PETROV
SCHUELLER
PRYCHODKO
SMITH
VERNADSKY
ZAVALANI
THE CHANGING WORLD SCENE
Author
The Mind of East Asia
The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Postwar World
ABEGG
COLE
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World in Transition
Strange Lands and Friendly People
War or Peace
America and Russia in the World Community
An Introduction to World Politics
The Near East and the Great Powers
American Diplomacy 1900-1950
Seven Fallen Pillars; the Middle East 1915-50
The American Record in the Far East, 1945-51
How Foreign Policy is Made
Korea Today
Defense of Western Europe
The Foreign Policy of the United States
The New World of Southeast Asia
European and Comparative Government
A Taming of the Nations
A Century of Conflict
The Russo-German Alliance
India and British Imperialism
International Relations
The United States and Turkey and Iran
Struggle for Europe
COLE
DOUGLAS
DULLES
FISHER
FRIEDMAN
FRYE
KENNAN
KIMCHE
LATOURETTE
LONDON
MCCUNE
MIDDLETON
MORLEY
MILLS
NEUMANN
NORTHROP
POSSONY
Rossi
SANDERSON
STRAUZ-HUPE AND POSSONY
THOMAS AND FRYE
WILMOT
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