CEILING FOR JUNIOR OFFICER TRAINING PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R000500090014-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: February 14, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT : Ceiling for Junior Officer Training Program
REFERENCE : Memo from DD/S to DDCI dated 2 March 1964,
Subject: Recruitment of Young Officers
1. On 5 March 1964 the Executive Director-Comptroller, in
approving the referenced memorandum, authorized an expansion
of the Junior Officer Training Program from 215 to 290 for Fiscal
Year 1965, and to 315 effective 1 July 1965. Our official ceiling
authorization, issued subsequently, provided 290 positions for FY
1965 but did not include the increase to 315 for FY 1966. Informal
discussions with budget officials indicated that withholding of the
increase for FY '66 was not a final decision; rather it reflected a
reasonable wish to observe the rate of Program expansion during
FY '65 and a demonstration of need for the additional positions.
I believe the experience of the Program to date indicates that the
additional ceiling will be required.
2. On 1 July 1964 there were 229 JOT's on the Program rolls.
Through the normal processes of addition and subtraction involved
in adding new classes of trainees and transferring to operating com-
ponents those completing training, the Program strength rose in
mid-January 1965 to 277. Recruitment is under way for the classes
of April and July 1965. It is apparent at this time that the planned
input of 40 for the Spring '65 class will increase the Program rolls
to approximately 300. Recruitment for the July class, with the most
optimistic rate of transfers out of the Program, will increase total
strength by 1 July 1965 to at least 315. To permit a continued input
of trainees at the levels authorized and expected, we will require
the 25 additional ceiling positions.
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3. Thus far the expansion of the Program has been accom-
plished along the lines intended, and in reasonable conformity
with the requirements established by the Directorates. Perhaps
more significant is the fact that expansion has not resulted in any
lowering of qualitative standards. On the contrary, on the basis
of scores achieved on the Agency's Professional Applicant Test
Battery, the average level of intellectual capacity of successive
classes has tended gradually upward during the past eighteen
months, For example, test scores of the externally recruited
JOT's in the January '65 Class ranked, on the average, among
the top 16 percent of Agency professional employees and above
the median for JOT's on board. I believe this indicates two sig-
nificant factors: first, the Agency recruiters are producing more
qualified candidates than heretofore to meet the Program's expanded
requirements; and high standards of selection are being maintained.
Both factors argue well for expanded use of the Program.
4. I will appreciate your assistance in obtaining the additional
ceiling allocation for FY 1966.
25X1
MATTHEW BAIRD
Director of Training
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