WEEKLY REPORT
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September 24, 1987
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24 September 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
Director of Training and Education
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SUBJECT: Weekly Report
* 1. On 22 September, the Director of Training and Education and
representatives of OTE's Management Training Branch briefed 15 Agency
managers on their new role as manager-instructor in the "Managing In CIA"
classroom. Each Deputy Director was asked to nominate some of their best
managers to help in the training of new first-line supervisors. The
response was enthusiastic with over 40 top-flight managers nominated.
These managers will help in presenting either the th~ev Managing in CIA
course or its sister-course, Leading People in CIA. u
* 2. An CITE Language instructor visited the Lauder
Institute, Wharton School of Business, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 16-18
September 1987. Wharton has an effective Japanese language croaram that is
producing MBA's with three level proficiency in Japanese.
observed classes, discussed the Wharton program with instructors, and
picked up some of their instructional material. While there, she also
administered oral proficiency tests to eight of their students. 0
* 3. OTE's Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI), conducted a
two-and-one-half day conference on "Superpower and Superstate: The United
States, Japan and High Technology for the 21st Century," at the Xerox
Training Center, 15-17 September. The conference was attended by 44
participants from the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the
National Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins and George Mason Universities,
Motorola and Texas Instruments, etc., and an equal number of Agency
officers with all four of the Directorates represented.
on 16 and 21 September. On 16 September, Yuriy Nosenko, former KGB
officer, drew upon his own career to discuss the activities of the Second
4. CITE's Soviet Intelligence Services and Their Activities seminar met
Chief Directorate (responsible for counterintelligence).
Chief, CI Staff, followed with a series of case studies and lessons
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SUBJECT: Weekly Report
5. On 18 September, several branch-chiefs and translators from the DO
and FBIS joined members of OTE's Language Training Division and the
Communication Training Branch to discuss how best to provide training for
foreign language translators. The members of this group proposed that a
convention of foreign language translators throughout the Intelligence
Community would best serve the needs of Agency translators.. The convention
would be open to those who translate or those who use intelligence
translations and would include sessions on consumer expectations and the
methodology of intelligence translation.
6. OTE's Information Systems Training Division (ISTD) is developing
training on aspects of the corporate database. Specifically, ISM will
develop and present training on the Office of Finance BARS system and the
Office of Logistics Class system. Both of these are IDMS-based systems
that use an extensive amount of commercially acquired software. It is
anticipated that ISTD will provide training on other aspects of the
corporate database in the future.
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UNCLASSIFIED
21 September 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
STAT FROM:
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Chief, Leadership Development Division
Office of Training and Education
SUBJECT: LDD Weekly Report
recently. The case study provoked a lively discussion among the MCC students,
a discussion that continued well into their lunch hour. Several-students
commented later that they thought the case enabled them to examine the issues
involved in acritical,.effective manner and had led to a highly rewarding
discussion.
a consideration of ethical issues based on a case study he complete
1. During the second week of MidCareer Course #102, (EDS) led
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CIA" classroom. Each Deputy Director was asked to nominate some of their best 61,10~1wi
managers to help in the training of new first-line supervisors. The response
was enthusiastic with over 40 top-flight managers nominated. These managers
will help in presenting either the three-day Managing in CIA course or its
sister-course, Leading People in CIA.` ms
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2. participated in a Train the Trainer seminar for Positive
Power and In luence at Situation Management Systems in Hanover, MIass,
September 14 - 18. Positive Power and Influence is a very successful
three-day elective offered by the Management Training Branch, currently
instructed by two contractors. The seminar is part of the process required in
order to become a certified trainer and is a step toward developing in-house
capability in delivering this program Ate, STAT
3. On 22 September, the.(DTE'and representatives of e briefed 15
structor side-bb,,-s' with the OTE staff and wi be expected to present
lected segnnefits of the course as well as to pa ti ' ate in it as panelist
d discussant. Th tl i=s wr manta4 a-commi-tment
n instructional training and a homework, ey will be employed full-time
n two subsequent runnin.s of one of the course - they will work as an
u~r or-anew visors.) The managers will first
ttend one of the courses as obser -parti 'pant and then, after a workshop
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21 September 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
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Language Training Division Weekly Report
11-15 5eptemoer i i / ur'u -res 5pec1a115L,
LTD hi of Testing tin and Dutch Instructor
visited Brigham Young University's Humanities
Research Center in Provo, Utah. There they learned how to use a new
software package, Microscale, which helps ascertain the suitability
of test items.
LTD will use the program to determine the suitability of
reading proficiency test items through probability statistics
following the 1-parameter Rasch model.- The package is now up and
running on the LTD IBM AT/3270 and will significantly reduce the
effort which LTD must expend to finalize its reading proficiency
test items.
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and Dutch Instructor) (carried out
extensive field testing of recently completed LTD reading
2. LTD Chief of Testing) (Testing Specialist
proficiency tests 8-18 September 1987 at the Defense Language
Institute, Monterey, California and the Missionary Training Center
of Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Additional field testing
of the prototype listening comprehension test in Dutch was also
carried out. Languages in which reading tests were field tested
included Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese,
and Swedish. More than 125 individuals were tested at both
institutions. Data obtained from the field testing will be entered
into a SYSTAT data base and subjected to Rasch Analysis for item
calibration and scaling using the Microscale program. It is
expected that all future test validity studies will be carried out
in a similar fashion. F-1
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3. From 12-15 September 1987, LTD Testing Specialist,
Testing, and Dutch Instructor
visited Brigham Young University's (BYU)
Humanities Research Center in Provo, Utah. There they discussed
with Center's testing expert (Prof. Jerry Larson) and its computer
programmer (Kim Smith) how to adapt Larson's computer-adaptive
placement test to test ILR reading proficiency. F-1
LTD has already purchased the rights to use the shell (the
non-language-specific parts of his program) in two languages.
Further discussion centered on how to adapt the shell and
particularly on how to arrange statistically meaningful field
testing of new items by computer. This latter point was new to the
BYU experts, but a way has been found. LTD will now proceed to
acquire their expertise by Individual Services Contract. F-1
Computer-adaptive testing shortens test taking time and will
markedly reduce the need for the cumbersome appproach used to field
test items at present.
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visited the Lauder Institute, Wharton School of Business,
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 16-18 September 1987. Wharton has an
effective Japanese language program that is nioducina MBA's with
three level proficiency in Japanese. _____]observed
classes, discussed the Wharton program with instructors, and picked
up some of their instructional material. While there, she also
administered oral proficiency tests to eight of their students. F
5. LTD S stem Administratorl_ and LTD Danish
instructor gave a beginners' Xerox Star workshop 15-16
September 1987 and Mrs. Skov gave an intermediate Xerox Star
workshop 18-21 September. Attendees were LTD instructors. F1
6. Actin hief, Slavic and Germanic Department
and ecently attended a meetin on potential training
needs of Agency translators. chaired the meeting in
conjunction with a request from DO Soviet an East European Division
regarding how to improve edited English translations of Russian
texts. Participants discussed such problems as inconsistent
source-and target-language terminology and disparities in stylistic
levels which translators face and how seminars or other types of
training might address such issues. 7-1
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7. There were 32 reading and 53 oral proficiency tests the past
week compared to 31 reading and 28 oral proficiency tests the
previous week-.
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24 September 1987
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MEMORAND1N FOR: Director of Training and Education
Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence
_ tw&and-one-half day conference on "Superpower
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CSI is drafting a summary report.
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bee6bwg, 15-17 Septemberf wad attended by 44 participants from "
the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the National
Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins and George Mason
Universities, Motorola and Texas Instruments, etc., and an
equal number of Agency officers with all four of the
Directorates represented, N. Ronald Morse o the Wilson
Center led off the conference with an addr son "Japan and the
21st Century." Morse, princip author Wh Nations Fail,
led off with an attention-grab bi ex ition of his belief
that the US in the 1980s resembles gland in the 1880s and is
slipping rapidly into political are i ustrial decline.
Subsequent speakers built on e's fo dation -- not always
agreeing but drawing from it o expound thit own views.
Attendance was high the 1 (t morning as it t(d been the first.
and Superstate: The United States, Japan and High Technology
Center
for the 21st Century 11 2WR at the Xerox Trainin
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22 September 1987
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
SUBJECT: IT Weekly Report
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Acting Chief, Intelligence Training Division
1. ^ Soviet Intelligence Services ands Their Actimities met on
16 and 21 September snt-aaec,r~ On
16 September, Yuriy Nosenko, former KGB officer, drew upon his own career
to discuss the activities of the Second Chief Directorate (responsible
for counterintelligence).
2. The Soviet Foreign Policy Lecture Series concluded on
21 September with a presentation on "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe"
by Professor Karen Dawisha (University of Maryland). Professor Dawisha
focused on the impact of Gorbachev's "new thinking" on Soviet-East
European relations, noting that Moscow was moving from rhetoric to
practical steps in reforming the ties among these countries. She pointed
to the seriousness of two other challenges: popular pressures and
impending succession crises.
3. The fall running of the USSR Country Survey Course began
Tuesday, 15 September. Twenty-one students pre d, representing
NPIC (13), SOVA (4), CPAS (3), and OGI (1).
4. The International Narcotics Intelligence Issues Course was held
at CofC last week with 19 students representing all four directorates.
For the first time an OMS psychiatrist, instead of an outside specialist,
gave the presentation on psychological and physiological effects of drug
addiction. This change facilitated scheduling and eliminated the cost of
an outside speaker.
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5. The second running of Understanding Insurgency and Counter-
insurgency met and was attended by 16 students, two from the DO
and the rest from the DI. The especially strong support received from
the DO in terms of speakers contributed significantly to the course's
each student developed an analytical="roadmap"?.on-.,a"topic.he or she
expects to be working on when they return to their components. This
favorable response, on a par with that of the previous two runnings,
reflects the changes made over the past year, shortening the course and
6. The Seminar on intelligence Analysis graduated 12 students
(10 DI, 2 FBIS) on 18 September. Ten of the students rated the course 6
or 7 on a 7-point scale. They particularly valued the exercise in which
placing greater emphasis on individual problem-solving techniques.
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22 September 1987
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
Chief, Secretarial, Administrative, and
Communications Training Division
STAT
SUBJECT: Weekly Report
1. On 18 September, several branch chiefs and translators from the DO
and FBIS joined members of OTE's Language Training Division and the
Communication Training Branch to discuss how best to provide training for
foreign language translators. The members of this group proposed that a
convention of foreign language translators throughout the Intelligence
Community would best serve the needs of Agency translators. The convention
would be open to those who translate or those who use intelligence
translations and would include sessions on consumer expectations and the
methodology of intelligence translation. A
2. The Office of Imagery Analysis in the DI has asked the Communication
Training Branch of SAC'ID to provide an all day writing workshop for branch
chiefs and analysts of the Nuclear Scientific Issues, Arms Transfers, and
--Chemical Warfare/Energy branches. The training is scheduled for October.
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22 September 1987
STAT
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training and Education
Chief, Information Systems Training Division
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SUBJECT: ISTD WEEKLY - 16 - 22 September 1987
amount of commercially acquired software .''aiticipatedthat ~e
provide training on other aspects of the corporate database in
the future.
Class system. Both of these are IDMS-based systems that use an extensive (,4
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training on the Office of Finance BARS system and the Office of Logistics k
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of the corporate database. Specifically,
during the month of October.
2. The Headquarters PBX connection of PCs to the mainframe computer
is progressing more rapidly now. We have scheduled training -
opportunities for more than 100 students on PC to Mainframe Communication
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Administration Division Weekly
14-18 September 1987
Conferencing
Coordinated last-minute changes and requirements for MG Conference
20-22 September and EA COS Conference 23-25 September.
Space
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lA07, Headquarters. Forwarded memo to Hdqs. Consolidation/OL with copy of
completely booked FY 1988 course schedule for 1A07, stating that_the.loss_or__._
inadequate relocation of this room would have a severe, negative impact on the
training mission.
New Headquarters Building. Submitted pre-move survey of ADP equipment
inventory for (YE classrooms to DA Management Staff per request.
Training Selection Board
Prepared memo for DDCI's approval of candidates for Armed Forces Staff
College during 1988.
d. memo., to. Georgetown. University- conf irming. .-the-appointnent of -
as an Officer-in-Residence.
Miscellaneous
Purchased prints for new classroom at All, Room 902, and 1st Floor meeting
room.
Began preparations for Family Visitation Day in Chamber of Commerce on
26 September; contacted various divisions and requested participation.
Began preparations for OTE Awards Ceremony on 30 September to be followed
by All Hands Meeting in Room 902; longevity pins as well as promotions and
awards will be presented.
Budget & Finance
DC/B&F went on a TIDY to Indiana 14-16 September to recruit for the Office
of Finance; on 17 September attended a meeting with OF/Management re effective
recruiting for the Agency.
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in B&F. She was a great help in tracking commitments at end of year.
Office of Finance C/T,I after a two week "tour"
C/B&F and Plans Officer briefed D/OTE on 88 Budget recommendations.
Personnel
C/PB briefed the SPB on modifications to the OTE Career Panel Process.
DC/PB attended Secretarial Career System Panel's semi-annual review of
secretaries on 16-17 September.
Continued preparation for the GS-07/08 (General, TA & LIP), GS-13, and
GS-15 Panels.
C/PB and C/AD met with OTE management on Career Panel Instructions.
Check In's:
Title
Office Grade Date
Security
Instructor LDD/EDS GS-09 09/16/87
SO is presently updating CofC Fire Evacuation Procedures and compiling a
list of Stairway/Floor Wardens and Alternates in preparation for fire drills.
Logistics
GSA completed their annual survey and servicing of all fire extinguishers
in the CofC.
DAC renovation is due to begin 30 September. First phase will be to
install the raised flooring.
1st Floor: Still awaiting word from Security on when they will be ready
to install equipment for movement of the guards.
New outside post office box installed. Will coordinate the closing of
1st Floor letter box with Dom Mgt. and local post office.
r' CONFIDE T!! I
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