SUMMARY REPORT ON AGENCY TRAINING IN COUNTERINSURGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06202A000100090003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 5, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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AHtUi FOR. Director, Plante.
,ry Report on Agency Training in
nterinsurge ucy
following aspects of Co unteari dsurg ncy: 4) history of subversive insurgency
movements; b) Agency tactics and techniques to counter insurgency c) contr?i-
buttons of other U .S. agencies to counter insurgency; d) the ti aat posed by
Cone unist party ideology a n4 organizational practices to U.S. national
security. e) situation-assessment and evaluation of overseas internal security
situations; 1) program planning and implementation for countering insurgency;
and g) study of the Overseas internal Defense Policy Paper. The directives
also require that CIA offer training as appropriate to selected foreign nationals.
A. CIA ' s authority and responsibility for conducting training in counter -
insurgency are contained in F- I 25X1A
March 1962. These directives require that CI train its personnel in the
2. While the principal Agency course in Counter rinsurgeancy is
which in compulsory for all Career Trainees entering on
21
andestine Services, most elements noted in paragraph 1. above
are covered in varying degrees in seventeen additional courses offered by the
cy. These courses and the aspects covered are (keyed to paragraph a
ve):
Vietnaa x. Orientation Seminar - a, b, d
Counterintelligence Opera#lee - a,
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to.intelligenc Familisrit*tiofe - a,
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C .munist Party aad. Ant t-Co n zniet Operations - a, b. d
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in Fiscal Year 1966, a total of
addition. the Agency in p`iscal Year 1,966 sen tsix sixty ff icer the the Nation l
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Inderdepartmeenzal
t two
of ratexinsx~r~+~~ncy, and the CIA Military Reserve Program
AMntO active duty- arses. to wit. ounterineur cy and Intelli9arnee in
two
. In Etacal Year 196-6. 214 officers took this training.
onnter1fl$ux encir
foreign nationals
25X9 Also, in Ftacat Year 1966, IlseleCtad wore give* training
by CIA
ee
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nsu.rO
*rloua aspects of counter
2s sand sewrsea Ag+eae-cY officorl
facility.
were sit*
:tonal
3. The Comm
twenty-two foreign "aft .
at the
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relevant to the couateritisorcy p
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relevant conclusions
port to Pre
The Agency has an eaeai.ietlt pro
A
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insurie1% Y training for its personnel at all career
F". ' Ithin the scope of this rev
prove
by. CIA.
rein' cur jt ently beln4 ca ducted
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Director of Training
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