COS SEMINAR 19-30 APRIL 67

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05795A000300040022-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: April 30, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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COS SEMINAR
FOREWORD
The obe ctive of the COS Seminar is to enhance the ability of officers
who have been designated to function as Chiefs of Station, Deputy Chiefs of
Station and Chiefs of Base. The instruction is focussed on the six principal
aspects of the COS's responsibility, namely:
(1) The COS as manager;
(2) The COS as supervisor;
(3) The COS as case officer;
(4) The COS as instructor;
(5) The COS as Public Relations Officer;
(6) The COS as coordinator (of all USG clandestine
collection activities).
The means by which we attempt to attain the above objective is, wher-
ever possible, through class discussion and experience-sharing, with the
aid of substantively qualified officers of the Organization.
It is a firm assumption of the course that we cannot train officers to
perform better as COSts by having them memorize sets of procedures to
be applied mechanically in response to designated stimuli.. The assumption
is rather that we shall have achieved our objective if we have brought about
a positive feeling of satisfaction in situations of change and uncertainty; if
we have learned, not the avoidance of risks, but something of the intelligent
management of risks; if we have learned how to use experts without being
abused by them; and if we have reinforced our habit of subjecting problems
to vigorous and painstaking analysis, keeping an open mind to all reason-
able alternatives.
An annotated list of reading materials which participants will find
relevant to their assignments will be found in the reading kit folder.
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