PROGRESS REPORT FOR WEEK OF 6 APRIL THROUGH 10 APRIL 1953

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP55-00166A000200040049-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: April 9, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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STANDARD FORM NO. 84 `" J I I j I ii t! I I AL
Office Memoran
TO : Director of Training
FROM : Chief, Language Services Division, 0/TR
DATE: 9 April 1953
SUBJECT: Progress Report for Week of 6 April through 10 April 1953
1. A combined total of 190 students is presently enrolled in
introductory and self-study courses in the Language Training
Center.
2. The language laboratory was used for a total of 515 hours
during the past week.
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F requests for non-CIA language training have been processed.
F have been recommended for approval and one has been re-
commended for disapproval.
Study of the aspects of mechanical translation has been continued
through conferences with IBM engineers, representatives of Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, University of Washington, Catho-
lic University, G-2 of the Department of the Arty and consulta-
tions with research staffs in several government agencies. A pro-
gress report will be submitted on 15 April 1953 which will contain
a proposal for a concrete research project.
Two special Russian reading classes began at the Georgetown Uni-
versity Institute of Languages and Linguistics on 7 April 1953,
each comprised of five students. One is Group 26 of SRA. (Special
Reading Basic) and the other is Group 6 of SRS-IT (Special Reading-
Scientific$ Advanced).
Arrangements have been made to train members of the ORR staff
who know Russian to give short reading orientation courses to
large groups of students on the premises of ORR.
~:. }J 7. Members of the staff of LSD will attend the Fourth Annual Round
Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching to be held at
the Institute of Languages and Linguistics on 10-11 April 1953.
cc: Plans and Policy Staff
CONFIDENTIAL
8. Data dealing with the diversified uses of the audio-visual mobile
unit has been assembled and a draft of a memorandum sent to the
D/TR for his approval.
D STATES GOVERNMENT
25 YEAR RE-RF\/IF\An
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