DEAR PAUL:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03527A000300040060-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: October 14, 1958
• Content Type: LETTER

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October 14, 1958
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My belated personal thanks to you for your organization of the
last Mid-Career Course briefing. As usual, in the final class cri-
tique the CIA briefings were noted as being among the most rewarding
elements of the course.
Let me confirm in writing that we plan to bring the current group
to you for similar orientation on Monday and Tuesday, the 8th and 9th
of December. Clearances will reach you sometime prior to that date.
You may be concerned to note that the proportion of officers of Grade
6 is relatively higher in the current class than has been the case
recently. Let me assure you that this is under urgent review here,
and that, at least until such time as the accepted criteria for assign-
ment are officially changed, the character and objectives of the course
remain the same.
In connection with the next series of briefings, I should like to
propose a change of emphasis in two of our subjects if this can be
practicably arranged. First, I might suggest that in lieu of a de-
tailed analysis of the British organization a period be devoted to an
overall assessment of the intelligence organizations of the free world
with relatively less on their internal structure and perhaps more on
an evaluation of the support which they offer to us. Secondly, I think
it might be appropriate to put a little more emphasis on the subject of
counter intelligence, and, specifically, on the support role which the
Foreign Service officer may be able to play in terms of his normal or
his unusual contacts with representatives of the Soviet bloc. This
might include also some appropriate advice on the extent to which mem-
bers of the Foreign Service are intelligence targets, supplemented by
a few pointers on self defense.
F. F. Rivinus
Mid-Career Course Chairman
School of Foreign Affairs
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