SUPPORT CAREER TRAINEE RESIGNATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R003100130033-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2002
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16 August 1968
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1. Firm cut old be re : to Mr.. R archon,
WW es, et at, to a Late In detall any con-
Aso they ba" had with CI + -e Serv o ere or any papers
which they have d ied or SeM on this broad subject. Me AoW also
incluc the apparently re ed matter of the ratio of ftemal to extend
2. TIw i ces from DD/S as to who should talk to whom about
3 ? D*VdOPMO* of pion for discussion bMnm DD/S DD/F
after DD/P ret 161we on 26 Auk.
4. Time p mltttng, tau aion on the dr4ft rein and,
:ularly, the timlug for Its release for formal inter-Direetarate
CQO7 d Luatlon.
Mr. Coffey -
Other papers are: 68-4124, 68-3986, 68-4206
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jolm W. Coffey
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Mr. Bannerman agrees that this
would be a poor time to put such a document
out for beer-Agency coordination. -- That
action should await the discussion on the
CT Program which we all anticipate he will
have with Mr. Karamessinea after Mr.
Kerames is returns from leave on
26 August.
Meanwhile, however, we could clean
the documeit up within DD/S so that we have
a paper agreed at lea* that far when it is
considered appropriate to ester the liter-
Directorate aras:a. You will see that I have
made some novas on individemi paragraphs.
Perhepa you can carry on as indicated above.
JOIN W. caw
Aft
Proposed CT Regulati
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Extracts on the role of the Clandestine Services in the screening and selection
of Career Trainees from the Inspector General's Survey of the Career Training
Program, April 1967. "
"At times criticism has centered on the method of selecting CTs. In
1960, for example, the IG Survey of Agency training suggested that the CT
Staff might be assuming "excessive responsibilities" in selecting CTs and
recommended that the Director of Training establish a selection panel composed
of line officers from the three directorates with representatives from the Office
of Personnel, OTR, and Chief, CT Staff. The DDS agreed with this recommen-
dation. In practice, however, it was too unwieldy to have a formal panel, as
such, operate with any degree of efficiency without disrupting the mechanics
of pre -employment interviews, now running over 500 per year. The Director
of Training, in an effort to comply with the spirit of the recommendation,
succeeced in acquiring representatives from the Directorate of Intelligence
and the Clandestine Services to serve on the CT Staff. This has been the
practice to date."
"Even with representatives from the Clandestine Services on the
CT Staff participating in the selection process, the DDP has not always
been satisfied with the method of selecting CTs, and from time to time the
Clandestine Services has inserted itself in the selection process. In the
spring of 1966, for example, the Director of Training, responding to a
request from the DDP's Training Officer, agreed to alert the Training
Officer when CT applicants were scheduled to visit Headquarters. The
Training Officer then arranged to have senior officials from the Clandes-
tine Services and the Office of Training. It was abandoned after a brief
trail period."
"Another screening procedure, developed by the Clandestine
Services in April 1966, is a panel that interviews CTs after they have
completed the first portion of their training. The purpose of the screening
is to determine CT suitability for the Clandestine Services. We discuss
this panel in more detail in our section on Placement." ( p. 35-36)
"During their desk experience, CTs are exposed to another screening
process. A panel, since April 1966, has interviewed CTs to determine their suit-
ability for the Clandestine Services before th continue with their formal
training. The panel is chaired by Chief I and has four other senior STAT
members. The panel reviews files and interviews CTs to determine suit-
ability and motivation. As of 1 February 1967 the panel had turned down
only two CTs out of a total of 81 CTs interviewed. The panel had reserva-
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tions on four others, three of whom performed satisfactorily in the remainder
of their training. "
"We question the need for this recently adopted screening process.
The Clandestine Services is represented in the original selection of CTs
and their placement after training by careerists from the Clandestine
Services assigned to the CT Staff. As we have pointed out earlier, the
selection of CTs is carried out in a highly commendable manner. Further -
more, the panel has rejected only a small percentage of CTs." (p. 96)
The Deputy Director for Plans review the present procedures
for determining suitability of CTs for the Clandestine Services
to determine whether this additional screening process is necessary
in view of the effectiveness of the initial screening of CT applicants
by the CT Staff and the success of the Staff in placing CTs after
graining is completed." (p. 97)
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