INFORMATION REPORTING, REPORTS, AND REQUIREMENTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02566199
• 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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TITLE INFORMATION REPORTIhns REPORTS AND REQUIREMENTS
OBJECTIVES To enable the operations officer (a) to do his
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own reporting, 05) to develop agents as reporters
and to direct their reporting activities, (0) to
prepare information reports for dissemination, (d)
to tailor requirements into definite assignmente
for agent reporters
To give reports officers ((a) experience of the
general. intelligence function and 0:)) practice in
editing information reporto
PRBREQUIBITES Top secret clearance
Basic Orientation, or equivalent in headqparters or field
experience
ENROLLMENT 8
DURATION Three weeks (120 hours)
LOOTIO Headquarters
The course is for both operations officers and reports officers in .
the field and at headquarters. It gives them instruction in the principles
and the practices of information reporting. It includes obtaining�
developing, and tailoring requirements to field needs and disseminating
reports with eonseqpent customer evaluation. Laboratory experience in
observation and the preparation of the agent-type report, in editing
actual information reports to be disseminated, and in Obtaining and
meeting customer requirements epplies principles presented in lectures.
In content the course falls into three general subdivieionn, with
live problems in each:
1. Reporting. Reporting includes consideration of the
qualifications of a reporter, the reporter's job, the applicailon
of tradecraft to reporting, collecting information, end the content
and the organisation of the agent's report. The laboratory work
consists of reporting from direct observation.
2. Bditiefi. Report* training is largely editorial and
involves determining to what degree requirements have been met
in the report, what editing eill make information most readily
unable by customers, who those customers are, how the report can
be most quickly disseminated to them, and of what value it is to
them.
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3. Requirements. Requirements an they affect both field
officers and headquarters officers are thoroughly discussed. The
laboratory prsctice consists of developing requirements for the
area 'In which the individual trainee is to report.
Lectures introduce general principles. Laboratory practice,
however, i3 of the workshop, on-the-job type. Each trainee processes
his awn are,reports under the individual supervision of an instructor,
and criticism is current with production. It is to permit tutorial
laboratory instruction that enrollmosat is ltsited to eight persons.
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