WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT 24 - 31 JULY 1956

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00039A000300050192-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 192
• Publication Date: July 31, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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Ojfice Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Intelligence School
FROM : Chief, Reading Improvement Branch
DATE: 31 July 1956
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
24 - 31 July 1956
1.I (discussed with us further
plans for the training program requested by OCR. The Reading
Improvement Branch will conduct 10 hours of training in scanning
techniques. The reading training will run for 5 days, 2 hours per day,
and the first group of section chiefs will take the course during the
week 13 - 17 August. For your information, a copy of the tentative
class schedule is attached.
2.I Washington Sales Representative for
Perceptual Development Laboratories, last week offered to loan us a
Perceptoscope temporarily for use in our classes.
The Perceptoscope is a. new y1 100 projector type machine which
is sold complete with reading materials for a course. We inspected
the machine last year, and decided that the materials and equipment
we now use are more suitable for Agency reading training, and the
Perceptoscope would not improve our course.
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in attempts to sell the machine to CIA.
subsequently contacted both
ief, Photographic Division/TSS
In view of the fact that the use of the machine will not add
substantially to the quality of our course, and the current offer could
entail embarrassing references to CIA, I have decided to decline the
offer.
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OP, received matn~ for the Reading
Improvement Self-Study Program on 30 July. and
OP returned their Bel tudy ?i 31 July. Neither
student completed the prog7ram, but -S felt he improved his
reading skills by discovering there was more than one technique of reading.
4. 10 JOs received the Reading Improvement briefing on 24 July.
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