U.S. OVERSEAS INTERNAL DEFENSE TRAINING POLICY AND OBJECTIVES
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP80B01676R000100130038-8
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
S
Document Page Count:
6
Document Creation Date:
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 10, 2002
Sequence Number:
38
Case Number:
Publication Date:
February 13, 1964
Content Type:
MEMO
File:
Attachment | Size |
---|---|
CIA-RDP80B01676R000100130038-8.pdf | 293.13 KB |
Body:
Approved For RelWe 2003/02/27 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000100130038-8
NSC REFERRAL NOT REQUIRERD
February 13, 196
SECRET
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 283
TO: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Attorney General
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Director of Central Intelligence /
The Administrator, Agency for International Development
The Director, United States Information Agency
SUBJECT: U.S. Overseas Internal Defense Training Policy and Objectives
This supersedes NSAMs 131 and 163
I. GENERAL
The President has noted with approval the considerable progress made
in the Government's internal defense/counterinsurgency training effort and
would like to be assured that this effort is sustained in the future. He
desires that personnel of each of the addressees with or to be assigned
foreign affairs responsibilities (hereinafter foreign affairs officers) con-
tinue to receive comprehensive instruction on U.S. policy and strategies,
and on the resources and techniques available to the United States in
assisting underdeveloped countries cope with the problems of development
and internal defense.
II. Training Policy and Objectives
A. U.S. Officer Personnel
The President has directed that all career-development training
programs offered by each agency with major foreign affairs interests
include study of the U.S. Overseas Internal Defense Policy. This in-
struction will be tailored in accordance with the specific overseas
internal defense role and mission of the particular agency as well as
to the career level of the officers receiving training.
B. U.S, Officers With Internal Defense/Counterinsurgency
Responsibilities
In addition to this broad training for all foreign affairs
officers, the President has approved specific training objectives for
4
Approved For Release 2003/02/27 : CIA-RDP80B01676R00010013
Approved For RelQ a 2003/02/27 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000190130038-8
' SECRET
2.
those officer-grade personnel indicated below who are scheduled for
relevant assignment to the underdeveloped world or to headquarters
or instructor, positions related thereto.
1.. For officers of the ranks GS-9 through 13 (FSO-8 through 4,
2 Lt (Ensign) through Lt. Colonel, Commander USN):
(a) Background
A comprehensive understanding of the history of
insurgency movements, especially those in which the U.S.
interest was involved. This will include instruction on
the background and environmental factors--political,
economic, social and psychological--of subversive insurgency,
the means utilized to prevent, deter or defeat such movements,
and the related problems of economic development.
(b) The Threat
A basic knowledge of communist ideology, organization,
goals, and the strategy and techniques employed by communists
in the underdeveloped world, including the doctrinal approaches
of the Soviets and Red Chinese to political power. Particular
emphasis will be placed on the various problems of develop-
ment and communist methods of exploiting these problems.
(c) U.S. Policy, Strategy, and Programs
A basic knowledge of the U.S. Overseas Internal Defense
Policy, its strategy of employment, U.S. internal defense
(civilian and military) resources-and programs, and the
techniques and methods through which these programs are
implemented.
(d) Departmental Tactics and Techniques
A thorough understanding of the tactics and techniques
of the parent department, agency or military branch which
have an application in detecting, combatting and defeating
insurgency.
2. Officers of the ranks GS-14 (FS0-3, Colonel, Captain USN) and
above will receive training in addition to instruction required
by paragraphs A and B above, to prepare them for departmental,
command, and staff responsibilities. At this level, special
attention will be given to the unique resources and capabilities
of all U.S. Government departments and agencies and of the need
to combine these assets into effective programs.
SECRET'
Approved For Release 2003/02/27 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000100130038-8
SECRET
Approved For Relw 2003/02/27 : CIA-RDP80B01676R0001;00130038-8
3.
(a) Situation Assessment and Evaluation
Develop an ability to identify the critical factors in
internal security analyses of underdeveloped areas; how to
recognize manifestations of dissidence and subversion.
(b) Program Planning
Detailed knowledge of the resources and capabilities of
the parent department/agency or military branch which con-
tribute to the overall USOID effort; the methodology of
program development and internal defense planning to include
inter-agency coordination of planning at the national level
and abroad.
(c) Program Implementation
A thorough knowledge of the methods and techniques of
implementing and executing programs of the parent department
and related agencies; techniques of cooperation with the
host government and third countries.
C. Officers Assigned "Key Positions"
All officers assigned to "key positions" (as determined by the Special
Group (CI)) in the underdeveloped world or in headquarters positions
related thereto, will receive special instruction at the National
Interdepartmental Seminar. This training will be considered as a pre-
requisite for assignment to designated "key positions" although it-will
be available to other selected personnel on a case by case basis.
Exception to this training as a prerequisite to such assignment may be
made only by the head of the department or agency concerned.
While this training will include coverage of those items outlined in
paragraph B above, emphasis will be given to the problems faced by the U.S.
in assisting in the development and internal defense of the underdeveloped
countries. Additional coverage will include:
1. The growing interdepartmental nature of U.S. foreign policy
problems and programs.
2. The development and coordination of policy and program imple-
mentation.
3. The concept and operation of the Country Team.
4. The Washington organization for overseas internal defense.
D. Official Personnel of Foreign Governments
It is in the interest of the U.S. to provide training corresponding to
the above to selected officials, both civilian and military of foreign
governments. While emphasis should be placed on training officials from
those countries actively threatened by an active subversive threat, our
Approved For Release 2003/02/27 : CIA-RDP80B01676R00010?AEQQ?8-8
Approved For Reltoe 2003/02/27: CIA-RDP80B01676R000100130038-8
SECRET 4.
efforts should be aimed at influencing and gaining the support of USOID
policies and programs from as many official personnel as possible
throughout the underdeveloped world. To the extent practicable, this
training should be given in the following places:
1. In facilities operated by theDepartment of Defense and the
Central Intelligence Agency which are available to foreign
nationals.
2. In special facilities operated by the Department of Dofonso, the
Agency for International Development, the Department of State,
and other available U.S. Government training centers operated for
the benefit of foreign nationals.
3. U.S. MAAGs/Missions and USOMs in underdeveloped areas.
4. At private U.S. institutions, where feasible.
III.Action Responsibilities
A. Departmental
The Department of State will be responsible for developing and con-
ducting such courses as may be necessary for officials of State, AID, and
USIA and when appropriate for other civilian agencies with limited foreign
operations. Each of the other addressee agencies will be responsible for
the organization of appropriate training programs for its own officers.
Each of the responsible departments and agencies will seek to coordinate its
training programs and to the extent practicable and necessary, make
available spaces for the cross-training of personnel from other U.S.
agencies with development and internal defense responsibilities. While the
Foreign Service Institute will be responsible for the administration and
presentation of the National Interdepartmental Seminar, each of the
addressee agencies will provide financial, faculty and student support
to it.
B. National Interdepartmental Seminar
The National Interdepartmental Seminar will be the inter-agency training
center for those officers assigned to "key positions". In performing this
function, the Seminar will undertake research, develop case studies, and offer
instruction on the manifold problems of development and internal defense
and improve the U.S. capability to assist underdeveloped countries overcome
these problems. In addition, the Seminar will serve as the focal point of
the U.S. overseas internal defense training effort. Accordingly, it will
undertake to assist other more specialized U.S. Government institutions
engaged in related training activities by developing instructional materials
on the non-technical aspects of internal defense, and counterinsurgency.
C. Special Group (CI)
It shall be the responsibility of the Special Group (CI) to oversee
and support this entire training effort, and to report to the President
SECRET
Approved For Release 2003/02/27 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000100130038-8
Approved For Rel a 2003/02/27: CIA-RDP80B01676R00001100130038-8
periodically upon-'the degree to which the training objectives outlined above
are being achieved. The inter-agency Subcommittee on Training, established
by the Special Group (CI), will assist the latter in overseeing and
supporting this training effort.
Further, it is desired that the Special Group (CI) determine the
adequacy of the effort we are making to train selected foreign official
civilian and military personnel in the problems of development, internal
defense and counterinsurgency and seek to insure the effective coordination
of these programs. Where deficiencies are determined to exist, the Special
Group (CI) will direct appropriate corrective action.
ti
McGeorge Bundy
Approved For Release 2003/02/27 : CIA-RDP80B01676R00010013009SE,&ET
Approved For Relqpe 2003/02/ -JDP80B01676ROQQ100130038-8 7-~
(CLASSIFICATION)
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
t4 '..
TO:
Deputy Director (Plans)
Deputy Director (Intelligence)
Deputy Director (Science & Technology)
Deputy Director (Support)
;ohptroller
Inspector General
General Counsel
Assistant Director for National Estimates
C*&PO 0j.
ROOM NO.
I 14 Tom.
LBK rkg
I - DCI (w/ref)
I? D D C I
~,~1'' ? ER
E*ecblr
This memorandum contains information for the addressees. Ad-
dressees may give this memorandum additional circulation within
their components as required. All copies should be destroyed, not
filed, upon completion of circulation. A master file will be kept in
the