INFORMATION REPORTING, REPORTS, AND REQUIREMENTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02549646
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2018
• Case Number: F-2017-01972

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TL E INFORMATION REPORTING, REPORTS, AND REQUIREMENTS
OBJECTeNES To enable the operations officer (a) to do his
oan reporting; '0:1) to develop agents as reporters
sel to direct their reporting activities, (c) to
prepare enformatton reports for dissemination, (d)
to tailor requirements into definite assignments
for agent reporters
To give reports officers ((a) experience of the
general intelligence function sad (b) practice in
editing information reports
eeefteUISITES Top Secret clearance
Beide Orientation,, or equivalent in headquarters or field
experience
ENROLLMENT 8
DURATTON Three weeks (120 hours
LOCATION Headqearters
The course is for both operations officers and reports officers in
the field and at headquarters. It gives them instructeon in the principles
and the practices of information reporting. It includes obtaining,:
developing, and tailoring requirements to field needn And disseminating
reports with consequent customer evaluation. Laboratory experience in
ebeervation and the preparation of the agent-type report, in editing
actual information reports to be disseminated, and in obtaining and
meeting customer reqeirements applies principles presented in lectures.
2n content the course fells into three general subdivisions, with
live problems in each:
RepeTeine. Reporting includes consideration of the
eualifications of a reporter, the reporter's Job, the applicaeton
of tredecraft to reporting, collecting information, and the content
and the organization of the agent's report. The laboratory work
consists of reporting from direct observation.
2. Edltine. Reports training is largely editorial and
envolves determining to what degree requirements have been met
in the report, what editing will make information most reateee
usable by customers, who those customers are, how the report en
be most quiekly disseminated to them, and of what value it is to
them.
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3- Requirements. Requirements as they affect both field
officers and headquarters officers are thoroughly discussed- The
laboratory practice consista of developing requirements for the
Area in which the individual trainee is to report.
lecturea introduce general principles. Laboratory practice,
however, is.of the workshop, on-the-job type. Each trainee processes
hit own area reports under the individual supervision of an instructor,
and criticism is current with production. It la to permit tutorial
laboratory instruction that enrollment is limited tc eight persons.
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