WHY CAN'T OTHER AGENCIES REIMBURSE CIA FOR TRAINING?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00896R000100170007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 22, 1978
• Content Type: STUDY

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QUESTION: Why can't other agencies reimburse CIA for training?
'RESPONSE:
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CIA is reimbursed for training of military
intelligence collection
In FY 1978 this totalled $437,574 for 33
students who attended the 13 weeks Military
Operations Training Course and 51 students
who attended the four-week Military Operations
Familiarization Course. Students from other
agencies of the Intelligence Community, primarily
Defense, attend several CIA courses without
charge, such as Counterintelligence, Information
Science, Defensive Driving and specialized
operations courses.
In FY 1978 CIA will have sent 466 students, most
without charge, to various courses conducted
by the Department of Defense. Reimbursement
for attendance at CIA courses is not requested
as Defense receives no reimbursement. This
training exchange generally balances in numbers
of students and costs and also avoids excessive
paperwork.
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QUESTION: What would an extra $500,000 buy?
RESPONSE: In FY 1978 an estimated total of 2,365 CIA
employees received training outside the Agency at a cost of
$1.94 million. This breaks down as follows:
Type of Training
No. of
Students
Cost
($ in 000
)
Full-time academic
22
$101
Senior officers schools
52
$128
Part-time academic
979
$159
Other external training
1,312
$1,512
The FY 1979 request is $2.4 million. The requested
increase of $500,000 would be utilized as follows:
a. Increase by eight, for a total of 31, the
number of employees in full-time academic training
in disciplines significant to intelligence work, such
as telecommunications, data processing, micio-
processing, communications satellites, lasers, fiber
optics, photogrammetry and international economics.
b. Part-time training in these courses would
be expanded from the current 979 students to approxi-
mately 1600; the Upward Mobility Program, curtailed
in FY 1978, would be increased to 150 students.
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c. Increase by six the students in the
and in quite limited numbers in commercial language
programs.
d. With the balance of the $500,000 attendance
would be increased in DoD weapons and systems training
programs and in interagency training programs, such
as ADP, contracting and EEO, and in technical courses
in quantitative factors, weapons development, graphics
development, communications systems and electronics.
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QUESTION: What did the Agency actually do to implement
the S&I Staff report recommendations on training?
RESPONSE: The report recommended the following:
a. That CIA training needs be analyzed
and evaluated, particularly supervisory and
management training courses. The Office of
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supervisors as to what training is needed by
first-line supervisors, and then by revising the
training curriculum. Similarly, the criteria
of who in CIA should attend management training
courses have been reviewed and tightened.
b. That the Agency-reevaluate its external
training, particularly management and executive
development programs. Following this evaluation,
the number of students in full-time academic
training was reduced from 23 in FY 1977 to 14
in FY 1978; the number in part-time academic
training was cut by one-fourth; attendance
in senior officer courses was cut from 82 to 50;
and attendance in executive development programs
(which received heaviest criticism) was cut
from 14 to 4.
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c. That OTR establish and maintain all
records on. training. Work is currently underway
by OTR and ODP to establish a central computerized
Agency training record.
d. That the relationship of OTR and the
training officers throughout the Agency be tightened.
This has been done. The Director of Training now
has a monthly meeting with a regular agenda with
the -five senior training officers of the Directorates
and the Director's area. These sessions are
supplemented by periodic briefings by OTR of the
training officers of all CIA components and by an
annual all-day briefing in depth, as well as by
briefings of OTR's major customers.
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