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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06180A000300120015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 9, 1966
• Content Type: NOTES

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9 September 1966
: CTs and the Drinking Problem
1. The attached pieces of paper indicate general agreement
C/IS, C/CTP) that something needs to be said to our CTs on the
subject of drinking in the Clandestine Services, but there seems to be
no agreement as to the right place in the CT cycle to insert this message.
After some reflection, I suggest the following as a possible answer to
25X1 C2A
"It does seem to me that some attention needs to be given
to drinking as an occupational hazard facing most operational
officers assigned to the Clandestine Services. It is not that we
have any hard and fast answers to the various aspects of this
problem, but we do feel that all such personnel need to realize
that the usual atmosphere at an overseas station involves a great
deal of obligatory social cocktail-partying, over and above the
25X11
25X1A6B
25X1 C2A
Added to the above is the
fact that overseas liquor is very cheap and you have a problem
which can be difficult. The most we can do is to emphasize that
the problem exists, and to suggest some of the ways in which help
can be arranged for those who need it in this area. The form which 25X1A9A
presentation takes in the Support Services Course (the
problem was invented byl for that course) and in the COS 25X1A9A
Seminar, is as follows. The problem situation (copy attached for
COS is passed out to the students for study and discussion 25X1A6B
among themselves. Then one or more of the students is asked to
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interview an Agency employee playing the role of the bibulous
secretary, who is programmed to come up with useful infor-
mation about the extent of her drinking when asked. The third
phase of the problem consists of a number of comments normally
given by I concerning the extent of the problem
in the Agency, the distinction between "the Problem Drinker" and
the "Alcoholic", and some items of advice as to the administrative
handling of such cases, incipient or otherwise. Finally, there is a
period of discussion."
*y, ,itIn my opinion, this subject can not well be handled by a written
handout. The subject is full of gray areas, and the most we can expect
to do is to alert the CTs to the situation into which they will be moving
when they are assigned overseas. Now the support CTs are exposed to
this problem when they take the Support Services Course, after they
have graduated from the OFC. It would seem appropriate for the
Clandestine Services CTs to be provided with a similar opportunity to
discuss. this problem in the course of the OC, but in order not to have to
engage in sermonizing, it would probably be best to contrive discussion
of the subject in some logical but incidental connection with the
25X1 C2 While I does an outstanding
job in critiquing this problem for us at Headquarters, the contribution
which he makes could no doubt be duplicated with little difficulty by many
of the officers of the I Trainin Staff. Perhaps the best
solution would be for someone from to monitor the next
10 running of this problem in the Support Services Course, which would
occur on or about 8 December 1966. "
25X1A9A
25X1 C2A
25X1A9A
25X1A6B
25X1A6B
25X1A9A
Chief, Operations School/TR
Attachment as stated
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