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# SECRET(dion Filled Ins)## NARRATIVE COMMENTSIndicate significant strengths or weaknesses demonstrated in current position keeping in proper perspective their relationship to orwal performance. State suggestions made for improvement of work performance. Give recommendations for training. Comunent on foreign langunge competence, if required for current position. Amplify or explain ratings glzen in Section & to provide best basis for determining future personnel action. Manner of performance of managerial of supervisory duties and cost consciousness in the use of personnel space, equipment and and funds, must be commented on, il applicatio extra space If Section C, attach a separate sheet of paper. is needed to completeAs indicated in the last Fitness Report, Mr. Smith assumed responsibility for Covert Action training presented by this Branch in the wake of comptomise of a wide range of Agency CA activities. Quite apart from all the operational consequences of these public disclosures, there were also, of course, concomitant ramifications in the training field. Following careful study and examination of the new situation, Mr. Smith devised, in closest coordination with the CA Staff, a radically new and different Covert Action curriculum. The existing comprehensive courses on youth and labor operations were discontinued for obvious reasons. In place of these and the part-time Covert Action Operations Course, Mr. Smith developed a new, full-time, three-day Covert Action Operations Seminar for middle and senior grade officers. This inten- sive seminar, stressing the integrated nature of CS operations, was designed as a basic core around which skills-oriented seminars or workshops could be built to deal with such topics as propaganda operations, election operations, use of agents of influence, etc. To date, in line with this concept, a Politics Workshop has been created to provide training in the assessment, recruitment, and handling of assets among key interest groups, including political parties.The resonance which these new courses has evoked confirms the soundness of Mr. Smith's creative efforts in completely revamping Covert Action training in the (cont.)## SECTION D1. ## CERTIFICATION AND COMMENTSBY EMPLOYEEI CERTIFY THAT I HAVE SEEN SECTIONS A, B, AND C OF THIS REPORT![signature of employee]BY SUPERVISORIF THIS REPORT HAS NOT BEEN SHOWN TO EMPLOYEE, GIVE EXPLANATION2. MONTHS EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN UNDER MY SUPERVISION6DATE10 May 19683. COMMENTS OF REVIEWING OFFICIALOFFICIAL TITLE OF SUPERVISORChief, Headquarters Training, Operations School/OTRBY REVIEWING OFFICIALTYPED OR PRINTED NAME AND SIGNATUREC. M. BROUTSASConcur. Mr. Smith has done his job with distinction and with credit to himself and his career service. His assignment to OTR is a first-rate example of quality in rotational tours. At the same time he has given a good deal to the training mission, I think it also fair to say he has gained professionally from the rather wide exposure to disciplines other than CA which he has handled extremely well.DATE10 May 1968OFFICIAL TITLE OF REVIEWING OFFICIALChief, Operations School/OTRTYPED OR PRINTED NAME AND SIGNATURE![signature of Charles B. Wheeler]CHARLES B. WHEELERSECRET