CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING - 12 SEPTEMBER 1974

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 9, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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9 September 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members of the Curriculum Committee
SUBJECT Curriculum Committee Meeting -
12 September 1974
1. The Curriculum Committee will meet on
12 September 1974 in the DTR conference room at 0930 hours.
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2. Agenda
(eadquarjers Operations Training
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Chairman.. - Curriculum Committee
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12 September 1974
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Members of the Curriculum Committee
SUBJECT Minutes of the 12 September 1974 Meeting
of the Curriculum Committee
1. On 12 September 1974 the Curriculum Committee met
n the DTR conference room at 0930 hours. Present were
2. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved
without discussion.
3. The chairman briefed the Committee on the formation
of a task force consisting of 25X1A
25X1A and- who will evaluate the training of Career Trainees.
He noted that the task force will brief the entire Curriculum
Committee at a later date, and that the Curriculum Committee
will make recommendations on CT curriculum to the Director
of Training. The chairman suggested that the next meeting
scheduled for the 19th of September not be held because the
proposed agenda items--the Off Campus Program, and special
programs of the Intelligence Institute are not matters of
immediate concern to the Committee. Committee members
agreed to this recommendation. The chairman further recommended
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that the Committee meet next on 26 September and rece
25X1A briefing on the paper as a prelude to
the work of the above-mentioned task force.
25X1A. 4. Mr. - briefed the Committee on a number of
the Headquarters operations trainin courses. He noted that
these courses are given by Messrs. 25X1A
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a. Anti-Narcotics Operations Course -
noted that the upcoming running of t e Anti-Narcotics
Operations course will be the fourth running. It runs
two times a year and has from 12 to 20 students per
course running. The course lasts a week and consists
primarily of three days of briefings on the narcotics
problem, narcotics as an intelligence collection problem,
and is followed by a two-day period in which the students
analyze real narcotics cases from their own organizations.
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The Committee reviewed courses which have presentations in
narcotics; these were identified as the IWA, BOC, AOC,
Midcareer, Senior Seminar, and Chiefs of Station Seminar.
The Committee carefully examined each presentation and
determined that there is probably not overlap in coverage or
audience.
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b. DO Orientation for DDS&T - noted
that this course began in 1966 at the request of the
DDS&T. The purpose of the program is to brief DDS&T
officers on DDO activities. It was noted that this is
the only course where OTR seems to be acting as a
broker or course arranger between two different direc-
torates, that is, DDS&T and DDO. noted
that the course is run twice yearly, and that each
course has about 15 officers in attendance. The course
lasts a week and is run at Headquarters. 25X1A
In the final days of the course, case histories of DDO
operations involving DDS&T targets are used as a basis
for discussion. A special program is presented in the
DDS&T Career Development Program, which is comparable
to the regular course. The question was raised as to
whether the coverage of the DDO in the IWA is an overlap
or a conflict with the presentation on the DDO in the
Career Development offering. stated that 25X1A
he will examine this question and make any appropriate
adjustments that are required.
c. Operations Indoctrinations for OTS - This
course was developed at the request o several 25X1A
years ago at a time when the Operations Familiarization
Course was dropped. At that time TSD, now OTS, did not
feel that the Operations Support course would satisfac-
torily meet the requirements of their personnel. The
present course consists mainly of training OTS personnel
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in certain basic tradecraft activities
as well as giving them a general familiarization with
operations activities. The course has run twice a year
with about 10 or 12 students each running. The course
has lasted anywhere from nine days to two weeks.
indicated that in his opinion the OTS
personnel could very readily be accommodated in the 25X1A
present 0 erations Support course at the
The Ops Su ort course has been
revised in the past year, and feels that it 25X1A
more accurately reflects the interest of the OTS. The
Committee recommended that approach the OTS 25X1A
training people and recommen t at in the future OTS
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personnel be sent to the Ops Support course rather than
offering them a special program. There is a distinct
advantage to this in that the Operations Support course
runs six times a year, and special briefings could be
arranged for the OTS people with OTS technicians assigned
to the
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d. Operations Records - outlined
the three programs noting that OR I is a two-day course
given six to seven times a year for all DDO personnel.
It is essentially an orientation to the records system of of the DDO. OR II, which lasts five days and runs six
or seven times a year, is basically a course in biographic
research or ivity in the DDO.
noted that the present AF Recor s icer,
will be assigned to OTR to replace when 25X1A
retires in the s rin of next year. At that
time will ask to rework the course in 25X1A
light of the changes which are taking place in DDO
records. A recommendation was made that all instructors
who go to the ought to be
given the Records course as a prerequisite comparable
to their training in Instructional Techniques. The
Committee agreed with this recommendation. 25X1A
commented that felt that there is some nee
for a course in fiel records. There was some discussion
about the feasibility of pre arin a unit of self-study
materials for this purpose. noted that such 25X1A
materials would also be useful in the Operations Support
course. will study the feasibility of 25X1A
preparing such a unit.
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5. Instructor Training -- The chairman raised the
question to the members as to whether all OTR instructors
should be given the Instructor Training course when they are
assigned to OTR. After some discussion it was agreed that
there are different needs in different schools, and that the
Instructor Training Workshop mainly satisfies the needs of
instructors who are engaged in one or another form of skills
training. The group recognized that instructors who run
orientation programs or are principally arrangers or course
managers need a different kind of training program. However,
all felt that new instructors should be given some sort of
briefing on how to organize courses, describe and identify
objectives, etc.
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Chief, Plans E Development Staff
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