TRAINING PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06365A001200040011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 4, 1950
• Content Type: MF

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4 December 1950
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
FROM: Assistant Director, CD
SUBJECT: Training Program
1. You were good enough to ask, on 1 December, that I pass
along to you any suggestions bearing upon the training program which
might occur to me. The following is possibly worth consideration:
it is an expansion of a suggestion made to me today at lunch by one
of the Biographic Register analysts.
2. CIA JOURNAL (SECRET)
There is need for a medium by which all employees of the
ency, at any rate in the Washington headquarters, may receive guid-
ance as to the thinking behind the Agency's various decisions as to
working procedures, inter-agency coordination, assignment of functions,
intelligence techniques, and the like. The Journal should freely dis-
cuss organizational matters in the non-covert Offices, and therefore
would have to be classified SECRET.
3. What it should not contain:
No substantive matter of the sort published in most
service journals, i.e. no intelligence, intelligence information., or
estimates as such. 4
No purely ari.~im.iatrative matter, such as answers to
queries about time-leave-and-attendance, pay-scheduleso and the
like.
What it should contain:
An article in each issue, signed by the Director or one
of the Deputies, on some broad aspect of intelligence work. Ideas as
to what such articles might contain can be obtained from such un-
classified publications as Shermma Kent's Strategic Intelligence,
Pettee'she Future of American Secret Intelligence, Bush's Modern
Army ?c Free Men, and many other such jobs. Also from suggestions
and queries received from employees.
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A "Question and Answer" column, to which all hands might
freely contribute questions. Answers of general interest might be
published, if not too sensitive. If too sensitive, then the inquirer
should receive a guarded answer by word of mouth, together with an
explanation of the reasons for holding the answer out of circulation.
5. What purpose would it serve?
It is not sufficiently appreciated by the top level in
CIA that even the very junior employees include a considerable leaven-
ing of people who are deeply and genuinely interested in intelligence
as a career - people who read the available books on the subject, who
in many instances do out-of-hours work in language and
courses, and who urgently wish to know more about the attitudes and
viewpoints of the Agency's leaders. These are the people upon whom a
career intelligence service must be based. Commonly, they learn more
about the Agency from seeing it attacked by newspaper columns, and
then defended by other columns, than they do from the Agency itself.
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M. ANDREWS
Assistant Director
Collection & Dissemination
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