ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW COURSE, 'INFORMATION REPORTING REPORTS, AND REQUIREMENTS'

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02549645
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2018
• Case Number: F-2017-01972
• Publication Date: July 19, 1956

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matumina: Senior Staff and Division Training Officers, DD/F
SUBJECT Announcement of a New Course 1nfo*tImiReporting,
Reports, and Requirements"
1. A new course, "Information Reportiug Reports, and Reqoi
will be given by the Operations School, Offiee of Training, during t
Three-week period 13-31 August. Snrollment i limited to eigkt
7.1ermit tutorial laboratory instruction in processing reports,
2. The course, for both operations and reports officer* In
field and at headquarters, falls into three general sUbdilisions, vtth
live problems in each
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Reportia Reporting includes consideration of thn qas.1
cations of the reporter. the reporter's job, the appIicatin of
tradecraft to reporting, collecting infcrmation, And the content awi
the organization of the agent type of report. The laboratory work
constete of reporting from direct cbsersation.
Fital.w Reports training is largely eiit.rwal and inv Ives
determining to what degree requirements have been mrt in the report,
whs.* editing will maIse information most readily usable by custcmors,
who the customers are, how the report ;Ain be most quickly 4loteminated
to them, and of what value it is to themv
Requirements, Requirements as they affect both field officers
and headquarters officers are thoroughly discus ed. The 1atm7ratory
practice consists of developing requirements for the area in which the
individual student it to woTk.
*73 The aourse aims at enabling the operations officer (a) to do his
reporting, (b) to develop agents as reporters and ta direct their
reporting activities, (c) to prepare informations report for dissemllystion,
and (d) to tailor requirements into definite assignments fr,r agent reporters.
It aims at giving reports officers experience of tne generaliHlUgene
function and CO practice in editing information reports.
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4. Lectures introduce general principles. Laboratory practice,
hovever, is of the workshop, on-the-job type. Each student processes
his own area reports under the individual supervision of an instructor,
and criticism is current with production.
5. Requests for training must be received by the Registrar, OTR,
Room 17, Building T-31, no later than 1700 hours on the Mondey preceding
the opening day of the, course, 6 August. Students enrolled should report
to Room 109, Building T-300 at 0830 hours on Monday, 13 August.
Attachment
MATTHEW BAIRD
Director of Training
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