WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #41

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00594A000300030003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 16, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Director of Training
Chief/Language and Area School/TR
DATE: 16 October 1958
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A. SIGNIFICANT ITEM
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
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1. We have accepted an invitation to give a presentation ust
like the one given Colonel White" at Mr. Garrison's staff meeting of
division chiefs on Thursday, 23 October.
2. At their suggestion, a delegation from NSA presented to LAS
staff a plan to compile the most complete Chinese dictionary in exist-
ence, a composite of fifty or so general and technical dictionaries.
A very carefully worked out plan of production, using ISM cards and
relatively inexpensive overseas research services,%tll produce for
fairly nominal cost a reference that ultimately can save countless
thousands of hours. We have offered to arrange for another presenta-
tion to a larger group of persons involved in Chinese research and
reference.
3. The last Roundtable at Blue Mountain Lake, which met as guests
of the Air Force and the Vice Chancellor of Syracuse University, was
both pleasant and profitable. The Air Force planned an interesting
agenda including an address by a Slavic professor recently returned from
the USSR and a presentation by an Otterbein professor who is. developing
an interesting experiment with moving pictures for language instruction.
Among business items, we agreed to respond favorably to a request that
the Roundtable include representatives from the Army Language School at
Monterey. Also, to create a central collection of suitable movies avail-
able to all members for language instruction.
4. At request of R/TR, LAS explained its activities to several DDI
training persons.
5? s been invited to attend the 29th annual conference
on the Far East by Upstate Colleges of New York at Colgate, but does not
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
DATE: 15 October 1958
FROM : Deputy Chief, Plans, Research and Administration
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITET11S
None to report.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. II has been invited by the West Point Department
of Political Science to attend the 10th Annual Students'
Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA) at the Point
in December as an official observer. Subject of this
conference will be Afro-Asian Affairs.
2. During the past week the following books were received
by the LAS/TR Library in 2132 "1" Building:
1.
The Ugly American Wm. J.. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
3 copies
2.
The Rebuilding of Ital Muriel Gr
indrod 2 copies
3..
The Population Problem of Southern
Italy Robert
Dickinson 1 copy
4.
Italy from Napolean to Mussolini
Rene Albrecht Carrie
1 copy
5.
Cultural Approach to History C. F. Ware, ed. 1 copy
6..
The Italian Labor Movement Joseph LaPalombara 1 copy
7.
How to Travel Inexpensively in Japan (pamphlet) 5 copies
3. During the past two weeks the LAS/TR Library has been
recalling overdue books; some of them checked out since 155.
Up to the present time a total of 38 returns has been realized..
b. Sixteen people were given proficiency tests last week in
Spanish, Russian, French, Serbian and Japanese.
5. Twenty-four people have been tested orally in French,
German, Spanish and Portugese for the month of October.
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6. The proficiency test for twenty-seven JCT's have been
completed in seven different languages.
7. Fifty-seven Certifications of Language Award certificates
were sent to the Registrar last week.
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
DATE: 15 October 1958
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. The Romance Department and the Far Eastern Department are
currently working on French and Chinese versions of the "Language
Proficiency Test" devised by the A&E Staff. It is expected that
these translations will be ready for recording in about a week.
2 The French Seminar spent the week-end of 10 to 12 October
at The members of this group, 18 strong, are all Interme-
diate or High speakers by Agency standards. Three of them instruct
in the After Hours Language Program. _ from the staff
this fall.
3. The Intermediate German RSW (FT) class began on Monday with
four students from EE Division for ten weeks. This course is known
also as the Integrated Language-Area Course, since the content is
largely area material although the approach is that of a language
class f the Area Staff, is participating in the course
with
4. We now have 38 classes with 493 hours of instruction per
week filling every nook and cranny of quarters Eye,
served asj a "shake down cruise" for future stays of Full-Time groups
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
DATE:15 October 1958
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. C/WH's memo to DTR summarizing that division's area training
2. spoke eloquently and informatively in
Ital - BCS -1 on "Formative Influences on Italian Culture, to
the Renaissance." Aside from his amazing depth of information
on Italy has an unusual faculty for putting over a
feeling for the country, and what there is about the Italians'
mentality and customs that makes them different from other
European peoples. He will be even more in his element Thursday
when he shifts from the historical to the contemporary, intro-
ducing the series of sessions dealing specifically with the
Italian people. Three sessions out of 18 concentrate on his-
torical background. For our major lectures we are getting a
total audience of about 20.
needs was noted, and our first effort will be to offer the
Saturday Americans Abroad for dependents. For practical rea-
sons, we plan to handle this group along with others going to
nd the rest of Western Europe, on the same Saturday,
anuary. Quarters Eye must be opened especially for the
purpose, and under this plan our staff concerned with these
areas would be committed for only one Saturday every two or
three months. Furthermore, all registrants could be assembled
together for general topics, such as "You Become a Foreigner,"
then split for specialized briefings on different areas. If
this plan proves to be feasible, we would do likewise on a
different Saturday for East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle
East. We are at present awaiting C/Admin/WH's response to our
uer whether 17 January, which is already scheduled for AAO -
would be satisfactory for WH.
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The Economic Factors - Asia course has been running for five
and a half weeks, and promises to develop some very interesting
papers by the students. The students have been encouraged to
conduct original research on the areas and subjects of vital
interest to them in their day-by-day activities.
uviiuaulve piians to make lists of area films avail-
able to personnel going overseas. We suggested to them a later
visit to C/PPS/TR to explore possibilities for publicizing
these lists.
of Film Branch/GR/OCR visited I- Ito thi
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