MIDCAREER ROTATIONAL PROGRAM

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200030015-3
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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 25, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Action Memorandum No. 362
Director/ Iageelllgeet er
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1)eeputy Director/ science and To
p`uty Director/ tpport
SUBJECT :
REFERENCE:
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I. In discn usv se
training for Agency person" 14 the Office of Training hav are
to the services of highly qualified officers who are eexpe1st
current substantively. In most tancees, these officers are assigned
re-
outside the C :ffice of Training and it follows, therefore, t at *0 Off
of Training should be in a position to levy
Ment for instructor$ an rotational tours of duty.
2. Because OTR provides training for the entire Agency, and past x ienCe suggests that a broader and aree
in view of approach the wo that
be useful, the concept of rotational programs
be#w-aeaeae C~ efy Agency components should be expanded to include
C`Pft and e~h+er ~g
the four Iiirsetorates? Experienced officers outside of OTR can make a
strong contribvtiOas to the training effort and will. on c+pleetion of their
riearece to their
assignment* to ~C3T`ft, bring back additional rs OTR e andicer ~ should b. rotated
parent components. Similarly. i e~ratst of
to the Directorate* to fill vacancies created by the a~see~'
--A OTR instructor
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:Diirectoratet officers to ?T . It ess
4Vk the ~xbstaaecee nd skills
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on "I broaden and renew their cxvw a,-ecess.
the *raining F
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are responsible for transmitting
3. 1 am convinced that an effsctiv'ee approach to the objective of
eshe fir Directorate*
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accomplishing ""Ore systematic ro
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nil OTR is provided by the idcarser i-rogta -. ati a.d for Age"y
officors asleet*d qualitatively and r o need for admuaeexueat. the
M.idcareer Pro ram. affords a part ufarly approp
reftUos of Agency officers to and frax t TI with co*ssquont advantage
to the tra ng program, to the Career Services, att to the lndfividnai
office re.
4, 1 can
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bt now,
qualified zntdcareer a ers
is plam"g Ave-year Pregrame
tting this program started. I
for their asi reer
a assigait here
to be rotated to the Office *(Training as follows:
DD# P' -- 5
DD/ I ., . 3
Di/S-_2
DD/ SIT -
s POUCT than
year,
Lynion U. Kirkpatrick
E*.c> ve Director
Originating Office: OTR
Retyped for signature O/ExecDir:mp (26 June 64)
Distribution:
Orig. - DD/ I
cc - Remaining addressees
ER's
DDCI
ExDir
OTR
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 MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director-Comptroller
SUBJECT : Proposed Draft of Action Memorandum on
the Mid-career Rotational Program
1. Attached is the draft of an Action Memorandum proposing the
regularization of a mid-career rotational program between the Directo-
rates and the Office of Training.
2. For many years, I have been advocating an organized rotational
program between OTR and the Clandestine Services. So far as it has
gone, it has been successful if we are to take at face value the state-
ments of DDP officers who describe their tours of duty in OTR as a
valuable experience in the substance of their professional training and
actual competence. Numerous other officers have expressed similar
sentiments. Some have mentioned, however, that they wished their
tours with OTR could have come at an earlier stage in their service
with the Agency so that they could have profited sooner in the applica-
tion of the experience gained.
3. I have the impression that developments have now occurred
within the Agency which, together with the establishment of the Midcareer
Program, provide the right combination of circumstances to achieve
important advances in the Agency training program and, at the same time,
provide reciprocal advantages to the Directorates.
4. It is of central importance that we institutionalize a normal ex-
pectancy on the part of any Agency officer of whatever seniority that
a tour of duty in the Agency training process may constitute a regular
part of his career service with the Agency. The reasons are clear:
a. There is a psychological tendency on the part of other com-
ponent officers to consider a tour with OTR as an abnormal and
unwarranted interruption of their career service specialization.
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b. An image has developed with some officers of other Agency
components that assignment to Training represents their being
sloughed off, disposed of, or judged as less qualified than their
component colleagues.
c. There is concern about promotion and future career assign-
ments.
d. Meanwhile, on our side, there is need for rotational assign-
ment to OTR of some younger officers from other components as
training instructors. The average age of our current instructor
personnel is about the mid-forties. At the same time, we must be
in a position systematically to rotate younger OTR officers to other
components if they are to be groomed effectively through the experi-
ence and career ladder.
5. I can think of no more effective way than that represented by the
Midcareer Program to advance on these objectives in view of the fact that
the Midcareer Program addresses itself to program planning for Agency
officers selected for their quality and potential.
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MATT WW BAIRD
Director of Training
Attachment:
As stated above
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24 April 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director-Comptroller
SUBJECT: Clandestine Service's Support to OTR in
the Mid-Career Grade Category
1. As you know, we are making a real effort in the Clandestine
Services to raise the qualitative level of our support to the Office
of Training in the area of instructional cadre. Discussions with the
- Director of Training and with the Deputy Director of Training have
identified the need for the provision of a number of mid-career
officers who can serve as instructors, particularly in connection
with the JOT courses. We are fully in accord with the desirability
of this development and we propose to support it.
2. The Acting Deputy Director for Support discussed with me
yesterday a request from the Director of Training to the Executive
Director-Comptroller for the issuance of an Action Memorandum
which would direct us to provide a specific number of such officers
each year. I see no useful purpose to be served by the issuance of
such an Action Memorandum. Whether it issues or not, it is our
intention to work toward providing the Office of Training with as
many mid-career and senior officers as instructional cadre as he
can reasonably accommodate. We will be able to do this, however,
if the tour of duty with the Office of Training is held to a two year
period of actual on-the-job duty, not counting the additional time
needed in connection with processing on board and processing back
to the CS. In each case in which we provide such an officer, it
would be the practice to advise that officer of the position to which
he will be returned in the CS when he has completed his two year
contribution to our training objectives.
3. The quota of five mentioned in the Director of Training
memorandum is not unreasonable, and we should be able to stick
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pretty close to it if we can also expect that the tour will be a two
year tour and not a three year tour.
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Assistant Deputy Director or an
CONCUR:
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Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Executive Director - Comptroller
cc: DDCI
Acting DD/ S
DTR
DDP/ TRO
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is reacting against Action Memo
memo represents good step forward and
believe we should concur with the substance.
in conversation with me.
Otherwise, substance of
in purely DD/P context. There is need for
centralized policy embracing also DD/S,
DD/I, DD/S&T. Mechanism of how
centralized policy embracing all directorates
not so important as achievement of objective.
DD/P is sensitive to action memos regarding
them as directed to DD/P solely or
primarily- -Recall ~s sensitivity im
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 Here is Matt's memorandum arftl his pro-
posed Mid-career Rotational Program Ac-
tion Memorandum which we have been dis-
cussing.
As I told you, I has
some rather strong views on this which I
think he should be permitted to air before
he is handed an annual specified quota.
FROM: Acting Deputy Director for Support
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