WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #43

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00594A000300030001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 30, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Director of Training
FROM : Chief/Language and Area School/TR
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report #43
DATE: 30 October 1958
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A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
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OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. At request of FE, we are making arrangements for oral pro-
ficiency testing of five persons in Thai at the FSI, as the Agency
does not possess anyone qualified to sit on a testing panel.
2. At the request of discussed with
him the FE request for two language-trained Japanese) JOT's a year.
3. has called to explore opportunity for a staff
position in LAS. While he has demonstrated competence in teaching
Thai,-me cannot afford him for this alone. Moreover, he does not
meet our standards for staff employment in the language field. He
can be considered for assignment to one of our scarce slots only on
a basis of (a) his competence to develop and conduct area training
on South and Southeast Asia, and (b) probability of requirements
adequate to justify employment of an area specialist. Assuming the
latter, I feel we could seriously consider him--more on a basis of
potential than of meeting our standards for the few area specialists
we can afford.
4. We have given 0 comments on his memorandum on the lan-
guage problem, and have suggested that he might send it to the DCI
after your presentation rather than sooner, as he had planned. This
suggestion was agreeable to him.
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Language and Area School
DATE: 29 October 1958
FROM : Deputy, Chief, Plans, Research and Administration
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. On 22 October Mr. Rice an Miss Wilds of the FSI testing
unit came over to confer with 25X1
about the problem of testing, in general and in particular.
2. Nine people reported for proficiency test last week in
Polish, Swahili, Icelandic and Albanian.
3. Twenty-seven Certifications for Language Awards certificates
were sent to the Registrar's Office last week.
4. Eighty-six people were tested orally in German, Spanish,
Japanese, Russian, French, Czech, Chinese and Dutch during
the past two weeks.
5. During the past week the following books were received by
the LAS/TR Library in 2129 "1" Building:
1. The Unitir_g of Europe Ernst B. Haas 1 copy
2. The Diplomacy of India Ross N. Berkes and Mohinder
8. Bedi 1 copy
3. The Far East Peffer, Nathaniel 1 copy
4. Nihon i Chronic a of Japan From Ear lest Times To A D b97
Aston, W. G. ed. 1 copy
5. Basic History of Modern Germany Snyder, Louis L. 1 copy
6. Basic History of Modern Russia Kohn, Hans 1 copy
7. British Constitutional History Since 1832 Schuyler,
Robert Livingston, and Corinne Comstock Weston 1 copy
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8. The Age of Reason Snyder, Louis L. 1 copy
9. The Ambiguous Legacy: Marx and the Marxists Hook, Sidney
1 copy
10. Conservatism: From John Adams to Churchill Viereck, Peter
1 copy
11. The World in the Twentieth Century Snyder, Louis L.
1 copy
12. The Papacy: A Brief History Corbett, James A. 1 copy
13. The Age of the Reformation Bainton, Roland H. 1 copy
14. The Greek Mind Agard, Walter R. 1 copy
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6. The enrollment of Hungarian Basic Reading I (PT) which
began on 13 October is seven students. These are both from the
DDI and DDP.
7. An announcement has been sent out concerning the
Advanced Russian Workshop, scheduled to commence 18 November and
continue until 20 March 1959. This will be open to applicants
on the high intermediate level, and will include three hours of
reading, three hours of conversation, and one hour of grammar
weekly. Students will be able to utilize Soviet materials in
their particular fields of specilization for reading practice.
Instructors will be
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Acting Chief, Language and Area School DATE: 29 October 1958
FROM Deputy Chief, Area Training
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Our discussion with DDTR of how best to overcome misinformation
and indifference concerning our Americans Abroad Orientations
among DDP TO's resulted in a decision that should make a 2X1
bid through C/PP to brief this group on the program. Optimum TT%
time would seem to be after publication of the November Bul-
letin, which will carry a strong bid for enrollment of depend-
ents in the "Saturday Special" scheduled for 1? January.
2. The first briefing on Latin America, which we have improvised
hastily to meet an urgent WH requirement, has an enrollment
of 11 including 6 dependents. Three of the total are COMM4O.
has discussed the project with about 12 WH desk and staff
officers, who without exception have given encouragement and
useful advice. Five of middle and senior rank have committed
themselves to handle the 90-minute briefings on individual
nations and posts, which will follow the general portions of
the program for the group as a whole.
3. All three main features of a recent class day in Italy__-BC,S `1
proved to be bull's eyes. M1. Luigi Racca of USIA, who prac-
ticed law in Italy for 25 years, discussed key institutions -
church, law, and education. We felt he was one of the most
effective teachers we have ever had the pleasure of observing
in our "I" Building classroom. Miss White, also of USIA,
evaluated communications media with exceptional discernment
and skill in communicating her own thoughts. The Italian made
film "The Bicycle Thief" was viewed aft r re ar hours by
most of the class on a volunteer basis. who saw it with 25X1
us, agreed that it contains a mine of practical data on Italian
attitudes and behavior.
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4. s rapidly learning to handle both professional and
log stical as ects of such sessions with skill, thus per-
mitting ~to give an increasing amount of time to the
area program as a whole and to his larger staff responsi-
bilities.
25X1 5. Mr. O has been asked to edit a manual on "How to
Increase Your Learning Efficiency" which is based on the
General Semantic Principle of Least Effort. The material
was collected for the manual by Capt. J. A. Saunders, USN
(Ret) who conducts a course on the subject at the Graduate
School U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
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