CIA Reading Room cia rdp84b00890r000800080015 8: INCREASED pdf

CIA Reading Room cia rdp84b00890r000800080015 8: INCREASED

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Approved Fo?elease 2003/508[13 C A L1P84B008 F2000800080015- MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration FROM John II. Stein Deputy Director for Operations DD/0.5 l-4l.Va_ DD/A R~~gistry’~- 06 140V 1981 SUBJECT Increased Surveillance Detection Training Requirements, FY 1982 and FY 1983 1. It has become increasingly clear that, principally for lack of adequate resources, our field bound personnel are being insufficiently trained in surveillance detection. Exceptions are those officers being assigned to very critical areas such as the bloc, who take the SE Division course, or those who have the good fortune to take CID’s 10-12 day program. Given the facts that surveillance detection is a most critical tradecraft skill and that operating climates for CIA throughout the world continue to worsen (and, finally, because we are in the process of preparing the operations officer corps which will take us through what promise to be two most challenging decades), it is essential.

that we come to grips with this resource-intensive training requirement in an effective way. 2. It is of great importance to the Directorate of Operations that the Covert Instruction Division of OTE be provided additional personnel and financial resources which will permit it to give surveillance detection training on an expanded scale, one which can meet our annual needs by FY 1983. Essentially, this would require doubling the number of students who can be given surveil- lance detection training this year and doubling it again the following year; i.e., from some D or so programs in FY 1982 to 25X1 3. It is understood that this build-up will take some moriths to complete and that in FY 1982 there certainly will be some diffi- culty doubling the program capacity of CID in surveillance detec- tion. Nonetheless, with 0 turning out an average 0 case offi- 25X11 cers per year who have received only a week’s introduction to surveillance detection, and with many of our middle-grade officers and field managers without any prior surveillance training what- ever, it is important that we make a major effort to close the gap between what CID can do today and what our genuine needs

are in the months and years ahead. Approved For Release 2003/08/13 : CIA-RDP84B0089OR000800080015-8 Approved For elease 2003/08/13 : CIA-RDP84B008VR000800080015-8 S E C IZ E T 4. In the process of studying this matter, there has been some discussion of the resource requirements which CID would require to conduct this training on an expanded basis without reducing the quality of their very good program. For your own planning purposes, tentative estimates suggest that a full program would require three additional instructors, some ten CTs at any time on brief interim assignments, authority to pay overtime to employees from other components who work with CID on this program after hours, a modern and secure surveillance communicat;ons capa- bility and funds as high as per year to cover increased salary, travel, equipment, satehouse and vehicular costs. As tentative as these figures may be, they are indicative of both the challenge we face as well as the tangible reason why there has been reluctance earlier to undertake this program.

Ponethe- less, insofar as the DO’s resources permit, we are prepaid to support this program, especially from the personnel standpoint, and await your determination of the feasibility of expanding the CID capability. John H. Stein John II. Stein Approved For Release 2003/08/13 : CIA-RDP84B00890R000800080015-8 STAT Approved For Release 2003/08/13 : CIA-RDP84B0089OR000800080015-8 Next 1 Page(s) In Document Exempt Approved For Release 2003/08/13 : CIA-RDP84B0089OR000800080015-8

• Creator/s: CIA Reading Room
• Date: 11/6/1981
• Book Topics/Themes: CIA Reading Room

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