PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE WEEK 16-22 OCTOBER 1953

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP55-00166A000200040010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 23, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? U-NITE'D STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Director of Training
FROM : Chief, Language Training and Programs Divisions
DATE: 23 October 1953
SUBJECT: Progress Report for the Week 16 - 222 October 1953
1. Two elementary Japanese Language classes have been organized during the
V week. Instruction will begin during the first week of November. Emphasis in the
first of these classes will be entirely on spoken Japanese. This class is possible
through the courtesy and cooperation of FDD and Mr. Ba all who made the arrange-
25X1 ments for the class to be conducted by the Chief, with the
assistance of two other members of his staff who will assist more-or--less in the
role. of informants. This class will meet after office hours and was organized in
response to a specific request from FE. Emphasis in the second class will be on
a ese b t pomp consideration will be given to written Japanese. This
oken Ja
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cooperation of TRS andl I This class will meet auri.ng vvv,L-is.,g 25X1
and is designed primarily in response to a request from SR Division.
2. The first advanced language semilar is now being organized and should get
25X1 r underway in the next week or two. This seminar will be led b of.
SR. It is expected that the early conduct of this seminar will provide experience
of value in organization and conduct of the total advanced language seminar program
which will be announced sometime next week.
Preliminary informal conferences initiated by NEA, are underway between
25X1/ with a view to providing OTR with the services of a
foreign-born analyst native fluency in Arabic and competence in the several
varieties of Arabic.
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At the suggestion of met with the Clandestine
.
Services Training Committee to present problems of planning and programming
language training activities for DDP personnel and to seek guidance and assistance
of the committee in meeting some of the fundamental problems that must be solved
before an efficient and systematic language training program can be of greatest
benefit to DD/P offices. This meeting is to be followed by another meeting on 2
October with the training offices of the various training offices of the DD/P
Divisions with a view to informing them of these problems and seeking their assistance.
25X1 5? has arrived in the Office and will be here through
V October. On 2.November he will begin the BIC which will last for 6 weeks.
25X1 6. It is understood that final arrangements have now been completed for the
temporary assignment of of ORR to this Division for a trial period
of four months beginning approximately 9 November, after which time he will be
retained on a permanent basis in OTR or returned to O RR*
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25X1 7. At the suggestion of plans have been made to provide the
university consultants with a tour of the language laboratory, including
demonstrations and personal use, insofar as reasonable, of the varieties of
equipment in the laboratory. Wednesday, November ii.from 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. has
been set aside for this tour,
is being prepared.
8. 0 spent one day at Yale University increasing awareness of the
programs of the Institute of Far Eastern Languages, and two days at Princeton
University participating in a discussion of area study programs. A final report
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