WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 6 1 FEBRUARY - 8 FEBRUARY 1956

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00039A000300050290-4
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 290
• Publication Date: February 8, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Plans and Policy Staff
FROM : Chief, Intelligence School
Weekly Activities Report No. 6
1 February - 8 February 1956
I. SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES
Nothing to report,
II. OTHER ACTIVITIES
Course Supervisor, ass s e
DATE: 8 February 1956
The morning sessions of the eight-day course, held in Alcott Hall,
comprise a series of lecture-discussions; the afternoons are devoted to
individual programs o orientation and briefiny arraneed by arious
branches and sections Is the
3 OSI; 2 OCI; 2 ORR; 1 OCR/CR; 1 00/FBID; 1 Commo; 1 OTR.
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2. Intelligence Writing No. 5 began 6 February with 11 enrolled:
are the instructors.
3. The closing address in IPM No. 10 last Friday was delivered by
the Inspector General, Mr. Lyman Kirkpatrick, in the Director's Conference
Room, Administration Building. Mr. Kirkpatrick's frank discussion of the
plans, policies, and problems of the Agency was informative and inspira-
tional. One student, a guest from ONI, commented that the talk did more
to boost his morale than anything that he had heard during five years in
military intelligence..
4. briefed the Training Liaison Officers of the
DD/P at their meeting 3 February on the results of the reading training
programs. They were especially interested to learn that the average DD/P
employee spends slightly more than four hours per day reading, and that
we offer individual analysis services for overseas employees who are on
temporary duty in Washington.
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5. Six engineers if ngineering Division, TSS, including
the Division Chief, took reading tests on Monday, 6
February. Eight emp ogees of the division are interested in taking
the Reading Improvement Course, but because they constantly travel in
the middle of the week it is impossible for them to take the course as
scheduled. To meet their request, a course will be scheduled on Monday
and Friday afternoons, 19 March to 18 May, if it is possible for the
Reading Improvement Branch to handle the additional workload.
6. The Reading Improvement Branch has received for examination a
new test in reading flexibility prepared by Dr. George Spache and Dr. Paul
Berg of the University of Florida. They propose to make sufficient copies
available for class use in return for a listing of test scores. The Branch
has agreed to cooperate in giving the test and supplying the data. No
security information is involved.
and Fulker, Chief of the Air Force Reading Courses, has
asks to participate in planning and presentsn
sixte n e eves on programs on WRC-TV, beginning at theeixl of February.
The presentations will be made by representatives of Georgetown, George
Washington., American, and Catholic Universities and the Air Force. Miss
agreed to participate in planning the programs, but declined to make
a personal appearance, Her role will he entirely behind the scenes.
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9. of the Audio Aids
Section/, assisted in the reorganization and
arrangement of CWC materials sore in the vault in Alcott Hall. Their
cheerful cooperation was much appreciated,
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